Silence of the Lambs - 1991

Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lector inside your head.

Of course this is the film which everyone was desperate to see when it came out 17 years ago. The type of film where you'd want to sneak into the cinema or get a fake i.d to allow you to do so. And a film that wins 5 Oscars and is nominated 27 times can hardly be bad can it? Well no, its not a bad film, its a terrifying and thought-provoking trip into the mind of a psychotic and deranged serial killer who likes to eat parts of his victims. He is also a brilliant and intelligent man who just might have the answer to another killer's identity and whereabouts, but will he tell? Anthony Hopkins does what he always does and is mesmerising with a tantalising and haunting quality as Hannibal Lector. Jodie Foster meshes well with him as Agent Clarice Starling sent to coax the information out of Lector before there is another brutal murder. The film however would really be half a film if it didn't have Hopkins in it and he remains a flexible and ingenious actor that I have admired for a long time.

Rating 4/5