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A “masterpiece” psychological thriller that followers hail as “one of the greatest films ever” is leaving Netflix within the UK subsequent month. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) focuses on FBI trainee Clarice Starling (performed by Jodie Foster), who’s attempting to trace down a serial killer often called Buffalo Bill, who has carried out a sequence of sickening assaults on younger ladies.

Desperate to seek out him and finish the killing, she seeks the recommendation of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a superb psychiatrist who additionally occurs to be an imprisoned serial assassin and cannibal. Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, and Kasi Lemmons additionally star. It was directed by Jonathan Demme from a screenplay by Ted Tally. The script was tailored from Thomas Harris’s 1988 novel of the identical identify.

The Silence of the Lambs was critically acclaimed and gained a bunch of awards. This included the “big five” Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress (for Hopkins and Foster, respectively), and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Fans have flocked to IMDb to bathe it with reward.

One mentioned: “Jodie Foster is excellent as Clarice, but Anthony Hopkins… what can you say? Another performance that fully reminds you he’s one of the very best. Outstanding.

“The chemistry between Hopkins and Foster is off the size: the strain, the unease, the uncomfortable but compelling bond-it’s riveting.”

Another wrote: “It is so properly acted, I could not even describe. I liked “Silence of the Lambs” and would suggest it to anybody. It’s creepy and thrilling. Trust me, you will find it irresistible.”

A 3rd added: “This is unquestionably one of many biggest movies of all time. It lands within the high 100 of a number of lists on the very least, and stays the one horror movie to ever win a Best Picture Academy Award.

The fan mentioned they’ve watched it “many times” it nonetheless holds up greater than three many years after its launch. “Howard Shore’s haunting score tends to be the game changer for me,” they added.

“I know exactly what is going to happen and yet that music and Jonathan Demme’s storytelling still manage to have me tense throughout the entire movie.”

A fourth mentioned: “I can throw out any number of superlatives, but none of them do justice to this chilling performance, which I labeled as the best acting work of the ’90s.

“Want to really feel the icy fingers of terror stroke your coronary heart? Watch this combination of good eloquence and inhuman cruelty. As portrayed by Hopkins, Hannibal is each a suave, cultured gentleman and an unspeakable fiend.”

A fifth referred to as it a “actually a scary cinematic masterpiece”.

The movie has a 15 certificate and contian strong violence, gore, sex references, and very strong language – so viewer discretion is advised.

Silence of the Lambs is streaming on Netflix within the UK till March 10.