#IS SILENCE OF THE LAMBS A CULT CLASSIC MOVIE#
#IS SILENCE OF THE LAMBS A CULT CLASSIC SERIAL#

Clarice looks off camera as Lecter stares into the camera which I thought demonstrated her POV or in other words the audience being inside her head. It can be argued that Lecter has the power from here on out because he tells her to sit and the camera shifts to always look slightly down on her and up at him. The scene starts with both characters looking directly into the lens which demonstrates them as equals, as soon as Lecter delivers his line telling Clarice that her temporary FBI credentials would expire in a week, the camera switches to both characters looking over each other’s shoulders which can be shown as an example of them putting up a defense. In an analysis of the first interaction between Lecter and Clarice shows an example of the idea of characters trying to get something they want. Hopkins came back to play Lecter in the prequel film installment Red Dragon and the sequel film installment Hannibal, but his performance as Hannibal Lecter in this film is by far the best and most chilling.

Some of my favorite scenes are between Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins who plays Hannibal Lecter, they both have undeniable chemistry. By interviewing him, Crawford believes they might be able to buy time and save Senator Ruth Martins (Diane Baker) daughter Catherine Martin (Brooke Martin) who has been kidnapped by Buffalo Bill and find out more information about Buffalo Bill himself.

#IS SILENCE OF THE LAMBS A CULT CLASSIC SERIAL#

The director of the Behavioral Science unit at the FBI Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) asks Clarice Starling, (best female protagonist ever) an inexperienced but capable trainee (she’s top in her class) to go interview the incarcerated cannibalistic, serial killer, psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter. The story goes that the FBI is worried about an increasing number of female victims being murdered and skinned by a man going by the pseudonym of Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine).

#IS SILENCE OF THE LAMBS A CULT CLASSIC MOVIE#

Watching this movie for the first time in the pitch black of the night with only the full moon out as a light source was probably not the smartest idea, from the first shot of Jodie Foster as FBI trainee Clarice Starling running through the woods (using low key lighting, and mist) I already felt an eerie presence.

Is silence of the lambs a cult classic