Premiered January 30, 1990 in New York
Budget $19 Million
Gross N/A
This movie continues to be (along with Psycho), the gold standard for the horror genre. After we talked about whether or not a horror movie will ever win best picture again. The answer: if the genre ever produces a movie on the level of The Silence Of The Lambs it will. The movie is so complete and so cerebal. The audience is guessing until the final few minutes and we wanted to hide behind the couch during the climax of the movie. Foster does a great job as an FBI trainee who is very nervous at first but who becomes a confident agent and of course Anthony Hopkins is magnificent. He turned in one of the top performances we have seen so far.
Callie
Favorite: I love the eeriness and the way it keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time
Least Favorite: Some of the dialog between the cops is kind of cheesy.
Joel
Favorite: Hopkins is about as creepy as a character can get. He hit a home run. Also, I loved the way the audience thinks that the police are at the killers door when they are actually chasing a faulty lead.
Least Favorite: The only thing that would have made it more scary would have been to not have shown the killer's face so early in the film. He could have been more mysterious.
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