Review #177: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
This review was originally written in 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #32: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) When I was growing up, this was one of those films that I'd heard referenced a million times, but never seen. I'd heard it was violent, it was scary, and it had something to do with skin on someone's face- so when I finally got around to watching it many years later, I was shocked at how it really was none of those things. I mean, yes, there's some violence in there. Yes, it's scary. And yes, there's a scene where a person has someone else's skin on their face. But like, I feel weird even calling this a horror movie? Obviously it is, but at its core there's so little of what makes modern movies "horror" present in this movie, other than just dealing with a grotesque subject matter. The Silence of the Lambs is a murder mystery with a ticking clock, and a lot of macabre clues that lead the detective to put all of the pie...