The 1991 film "The Silence of the Lambs," based on Thomas
Harris's bestseller, was a game-changer in the fields of both
horror and crime cinema. FBI trainee Clarice Starling was a new
kind of heroine, vulnerable, intuitive, and in a deeply unhealthy
relationship with her monstrous helper/opponent, the serial killer
Hannibal Lecter.
Jonathan Demme's film skillfully appropriated the tropes of
police procedural, gothic melodrama and contemporary horror and
produced something entirely new. The resulting film was both
critically acclaimed and massively popular, and went on to have an
enormous influence on 1990s genre cinema. Crime and horror
authority Barry Forshaw closely examines the factors that
contributed to the film's impact, including the revelatory
performances of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in the lead
roles.
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