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The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)
Released By: Orion Home Video   Rating: R   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: Orion Home Video
Genre: Mystery-Suspense
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Demme
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Anthony Heald, Anthony Hopkins, Brooke Smith, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Published ID: 1245
UPC: 014381406924, 715515009133, 027616865502, 027616865540, 027616909091, 027616065841, 027616071514,
Plot: In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then removes the skin from their bodies. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into this case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. Lecter does indeed know something of Buffalo Bill, but his information comes with a price: in exchange for telling what he knows, he wants to be housed in a more comfortable facility. More important, he wants to speak with Clarice about her past. He skillfully digs into her psyche, forcing her to reveal her innermost traumas and putting her in a position of vulnerability when she can least afford to be weak. The film mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horrors of Lecter's slow-motion interrogation of Clarice and of her memories that emerge from it. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Great Film Suffers a Bad Transfer
Added 1/19/2010

I'm sure it's quite easy to read around the other reviews for the praise the film deserves as a film. BUT unfortunately this blu-ray transfer looks washed out, with a constant sheen of brown that dampens the whole image throughout.

It's a great film, but definitely deserves a better transfer than this. Buyer beware.

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
The Silence of the Lambs
Added 1/6/2010

An ambitious FBI agent enlists the aid of a criminally insane ex-psychiatrist to help track down a vicious serial killer. It has been a good long while since I have felt the presence of Evil so manifestly demonstrated as in the first appearance of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. The Silence of the Lambs slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
CLASSIC MOVIE
Added 1/1/2010

Great movie....I've seen this about a thousand times and will probably never get sick of it.
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Not a good Blu-ray transfer comparing to the Criterion DVD
Added 11/17/2009

This is one of my all time favorite movies. This is a five star movie and my two star rating applies only to the Blu-ray transfer. I have the Criterion Collection Edition of this movie. In comparing the Blu-ray edition and the Criterion DVD edition, I found the Blu-ray edition to have a less appealing color palette. It is somewhat bluish, less saturated, and sometimes looks magenta. The Criterion edition has an overall warmer tone. The movie itself also does not seem to benefit all that much from the higher resolution transfer either. I don't know if it's the definition of the film or if the transfer wasn't well done. You are not going to see the kind of sharpness you see on more recent Blu-ray transfers such as The Dark Knight or Revolutionary Road.

Excellent film, though if you have the DVD already it is probably not worth it to get the Blu-ray version.

4 out of 5 people found this helpful.
old...but still great.
Added 11/16/2009

I bought this movie expecting an Ok mistery Thriller...and that is what I got at the beggining but then it turned very good since the first time you see Buffalo Bill.My favorite scene is Hannibal's escape it is gory and exciting he is so clever I think he is the cleverest slasher movie villan off all time he can read your mind.Buffalo Bill is nutts...and I got a very high tolerance for nutts.The main villan is not Hannibal it is Buffalo Bill he is more bad than Hannibal...he has no reason Hannibal is traumatized.Between this 2 villans there is a hero it is the detective the female detective.It is a true classic of Horror cinema the first movie to give Anthony Hopkins his famous role as Dr. Hannibal Lecter The Cannibal.


0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Great Film Suffers a Bad Transfer
Added 1/19/2010

I'm sure it's quite easy to read around the other reviews for the praise the film deserves as a film. BUT unfortunately this blu-ray transfer looks washed out, with a constant sheen of brown that dampens the whole image throughout.

It's a great film, but definitely deserves a better transfer than this. Buyer beware.

0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
The Silence of the Lambs
Added 1/6/2010

An ambitious FBI agent enlists the aid of a criminally insane ex-psychiatrist to help track down a vicious serial killer. It has been a good long while since I have felt the presence of Evil so manifestly demonstrated as in the first appearance of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. The Silence of the Lambs slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
CLASSIC MOVIE
Added 1/1/2010

Great movie....I've seen this about a thousand times and will probably never get sick of it.
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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