The Silence of the Lambs (1991) KILL COUNT

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I like how the girl in the well wasn't just a tragic victim. She seized the first opportunity to get an upper hand by holding Bill's dog hostage.

Fun Fact: Hannibal's iconic line "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." is a secret confession he's not taking his medications. All three of those things react very poorly to the medicine he's supposed to be taking.

I like that Hannibal is just chilling in Jamaica, he’s like “hey, I’m just checking on you. Anyways I’m going to eat this guy, later.”

Fun fact from a Pittsburgh native, the scene of Hannibal Lecter killing all those cops was actually shot in the same building where my high school used to have its prom, making what Lecter did only the second most horrifying event in that building's history.

Fun fact: During Clarice's lamb story, you can hear a faint clunk right after she says "I thought if I could save just one", which was a crew member dropping a wrench. Jodie stayed in character enough for the scene to continue, but as soon as it was done, she turned and yelled "What the hell was that?" Jodie Foster is a badass.

“Love your suit” is such a fun, camp line.

The title's meaning doesn't carry over to the film, but it comes from the end of the book. Rather than a phone call at her graduation, Lector instead writes her a letter asking if the lambs have stopped screaming, and the last line of the book is that Clarice is sleeping peacefully "in the silence of the lambs."

The best scene, and the dramatic climax, is the one second when Clarice and Hannibal's fingers touch, the consummation of their relationship. That's when they both realize their aspirations-- she realizes her own motivation, and he gets to sincerely help someone as a psychiatrist. Gives me chills.

Jame Gumb’s name isn’t a mistake. You are right. They canonically did forget to write it out. His parents were so drunk they forgot the ‘s’ on his birth certificate, according to the novel.

The fact Hannibal never blinks while he's on screen makes me love this movie even more. Hopkins is such a wonderful actor.

I will always love this film. My dad passed away in 2016, very unexpectedly. He wasn’t great at taking care of me as a kid because he struggled with an addiction to alcohol. Because of this, whenever I visited for the weekend, he’d kind of let me just a watch whatever. The Silence of the Lambs was the first horror film I ever watched (I was maybe 5 and my dad was passed out). This film gets all the credit for the birth of my love for horror, and it always reminds me of my dad. He had such a kind soul, but addiction ended up taking him away from me and everyone who loved him. I struggled with my own addiction to opiates and heroin for 10 years. I finally got the help I needed and now I can give my daughter the best version of me; clean and sober. I’ll be 4 years clean in July. Sorry this comment got so personal but that’s one of the best things about films in general. The way they evoke certain memories and situations and how those films will forever be tied to them

This movie is FULL of fire quotes "Amputate a man's leg and you can still feel it tickle. Tell me, when your little girl is on the slab, where will it tickle you?" is by far my personal favorite

The fact that this masterpiece of a movie ends with a fucking pun about cannibalism is so campy, in the best way.

Anthony Hopkins does an incredible job making Hannibal one of the creepiest horror icons. His inflections, tone, the way he never blinks, it's really unnerving the first time watching. No wonder Jodie Foster was actually scared of Hopkins during filming.

Fun Fact: During the well scene where Buffalo Bill is crying before shouting, "PUT THE F***ING LOTION IN THE BASKET!", those were Ted Levine's real tears. He said before in interviews that he never hated playing Buffalo Bill for the movie, but there were times where he really didn't like it purely because of how cruel he had to be to Brooke Smith (Catherine), even though none of it was real. So when they did that well scene together, Brooke actually improvised the line, "I want my mommy!" and that bit of improvisation caught him so off guard and that was just it for poor Ted. He just burst into tears, and everyone liked it so much that they wanted to keep it in the movie.

This comment is a shout out to Anthony Hopkins. A couple years back he'd posted on twitter about his sobriety streak and how proud he was. Days later, I quit drinking too. Its cuz of him I've made 2 years without alcohol!

"Pocket Sand! Oh wait, OH GOD, THAT'S NOT SAND!!!" I didn't think it was possible to make that scene funny. James doesn't disappoint.

"Well, Clarice - have the lambs stopped screaming?"

I liked the way that both Clarice and Hannibal had this sort of respect for each other throughout the film made it very interesting to watch