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Rating: 8/10
Silence of the Lambs, is probably one of the very few horror movies which I liked. Believe it or not, I have only seen the movie in 2021 (that's 20 years after it was first released) and what really piqued my attention was the fact that it was voted as the scariest movie of all time by one online survey. But I never really paid much attention to that survey since I am not into horror genre.
SOTL still employed gore and blood as shock value, but take that away and it would still be a great film, simply because the plot/thesis was able to make the audience think from the POV of Hannibal Lecter; as we as audience become Clarisse as we try to piece the puzzle based on the snippets of clue Hannibal was providing. The elements of urgency e.g. running after Buffalo Bill to save the victim, gave us audience the push to think quickly - who can be the serial killer, and so on.
