Advantages: great story, good acting Disadvantages: bit gorey, emtional issues
I really like the whole genre of thriller/mystery/murder because it is exciting and silence of the lambs is always exciting. I really enjoyed watching this way back when because it has an original storyline and excellent character portrayal from Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.
The silence of the lambs focuses on Jodie Foster's character inteviewing Dr Hannibal Lector about Buffalo Bill, a man that is kidnapping and skinning women to make a skin suit for himself. He is clearly very deranged and odd and quite sick in the head to want to do this to people.
It is not like the others which focus on Hannibal and his feasting on other people but the plot and story is still very disturbing and sickening yet I think that is what makes it so good because it disturbs us and keeps us watching. The director has thrown in many hooks to keep us ...
Advantages: Iconic, powerful, mesmeric and brilliantly performed Disadvantages: Seen as homophobic. Gruesome and disturbing
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
John Hurt, Patrick Stewart, Jeremy Irons, Jack Nicholson and Sean Connery were all considered to play the role of the cannibalistic serial-killer Dr Hannibal Lecter in Jonathan Demme's 1991 psychological thriller/horror "Silence of the Lambs." Fortunately, however, we were spared the thought of James Bond becoming the silver screen's most notorious serial killer when the role was handed to Anthony Hopkins. A legend was born.
Hopkins is on the screen for precisely 24 minutes and 17 seconds, yet his powerful presence casts a shadow over the movie from start to finish. His performance as the psychotic doctor was so memorable that not even this lack of screen time could prevent him from picking up the Oscar for Best Leading Actor ...
Advantages: Quite original storyline, pretty entertaining Disadvantages: Not scary at all
If you've read any of my other recent reviews, you might have noticed that I've been watching a lot of crappy horror movies lately. Dead Silence is the latest of those.
Upon watching it all I was expecting was a film about ventriloquist's dummies, which let's face it, are pretty creepy. It's been ages since a film has actually delivered something to scare me, so there was definite potential.
At the start of the film Jamie (Ryan Kwanten - Home & Away, Flicka), receives a mysterious package containing the spooky puppet, with no note explaining who it was from. His wife Ella (Amber Valletta - Hitch, What Lies Beneath), joked around with the doll and started reciting a poem from when they were kids (growing up in the same small town) about an old lady named Mary Shaw who had no children, only dolls. Jamie then goes to get a takeaway to ...
