The Silence of the Lambs
Movie • 1991 • Crime Report
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user15694
precious breaks her paw falling into the well but is otherwise unharmed and catherine is seen leaving the house with precious in her arms (i think she adopted her)
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Ravesti
In one scene, Clarice describes to Dr. Lecter seeing and hearing lambs being slaughtered during her childhood.
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Nekrotikk
Buffalo Bill's dog, Precious, yelps because Catherine pinches her leg to make Bill think she's hurt. Catherine is seen holding Precious. In the book this is because Precious is not actually hurt and I think holding her in the film would also be to stop her running round and showing that she's not really hurt. Catherine is otherwise affectionate to Precious in both the film and the book. Spoilers: Catherine threatens to hurt Precious but no indication is given that she would actually go through with it, she sees the threat as a way to potentially escape Buffalo Bill. At the end Catherine seems to adopt Precious so the dog probably saw a vet and went on to live a happy life with Catherine. We don't see this but that's the impression I got.
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areyouciarious
Specifically, a cocoon containing a dead moth and, later, other specimens of insects are seen displayed. The death of lambs via slaughtering on a ranch is discussed, but not shown on screen.
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SofieWasTaken
There’s a cat seen sitting in a window but nothing happens to it
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FishMan
Don’t remember any live ones, there are multiple scenes with insects/arachnids in terrariums and display cases.
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madliv
Yes. First a moth in a cocoon in found in the throat of a dead woman. It is then dissected. Later, in a home, many live moths are seen flying in large cages. At one point a man allows one to climb over his face. At the end of the movie, a fly is crawling on a man’s face. There are images of moths and butterflies throughout the movie.
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No, but there are flashbacks of the death of a female character's father who is killed when she was still young. She later mentions how her uncle, who she was under the care of, sent her to live in an orphanage.
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A female character, who is abused while being held prisoner, threatens to hurt/kill a small dog and is verbally abusive (mildly) towards another female character who shows up to help her, but first must find the bad guy.
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Sid
A teenager is kept in a well and sprayed with a hose for misbehaving. Others were killed before the events of the film. There’s also a disturbing scene where Hannibal asks Clarice if she was sexually abused as a child - “did the rancher force you to perform fellatio? Did he sodomise you?” - and she says no but it’s still not a nice thing to hear
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A serial killer stalks his victims prior to their kidnap and murder, but this is not seen.
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hannibal is restrained several times throughout the movie
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MakWitt
Clarice starling had s***n thrown into her face
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Sid
Buffalo Bill tortures the girls he kidnaps physically and Hannibal tortures Clarice mentally by forcing her to relive traumatic memories
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Not exactly. A body is hung from the cage bars of a lone prison cell in the middle of a room, but the person is not hung by the neck. Just hung up in some manner for display after it was multilated.
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Catherine when she was held in the pit
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At the beginning while they are describing Hannibal's crimes, he mentioned the fact he ate someone's eye.
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Sid
The scene where Hannibal kills the guards is a little gratuitous
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areyouciarious
The character "Buffalo Bill" skins his victims, though this is not shown on-screen.
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Allandrel
A character claims that a dog has broken its leg, but may have been lying.
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FishMan
(Warning- Description of nail/finger trauma)
Some victims clawed at the walls and damaged their hands and broke/lost entire finger nails.
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Calliopehoop
No, but there is a coroner scene of using tweezers to extract an object from a corpse’s mouth
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deadgrlwalkin
*spoilers* When Hannibal pretends to be an injured police officer in order to escape, he begins to shake aggressively on the stretcher. We don't know if it is an actual seizure or if Hannibal is faking it.
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cassandrasaurusrdr
No but someone is held captive in a deep pit and it’s pretty claustrophobic.
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There us a severed head in a jar, but you don't see this happen. A character just discovers it after the fact.
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cassandrasaurusrdr
Not but someone’s face is removed.
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Moolder
Hannibal is a cannibal.
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A severed head is shown in a large jar.
A multilated dead body is shown in a coroner's office.
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cassandrasaurusrdr
A minor’s corpse is shown but she is a teenager. She does not die on camera, it’s just referred to and aftermath is shown.
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Sort of- in Clarice's childhood memories, she recounts an incident where she woke up to the sound of screaming lambs on the night they were sent to slaughter. It isn't shown, and the slaughter is not described.
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Ravesti
Clarice's father dies before the beginning of the film's events; there is a flashback scene of young Clarice at her father's funeral/looking at his body.
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TFMD
A serial killer holds a live victim against her will
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cassandrasaurus
A character who is being held hostage is threatened with getting hosed down “again” and is shown soaking wet.
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Sid
When the body falls through the hatch on the roof of the lift and when Clarice sees the corpse in the bathtub and then the lights go off
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Sid
It’s definitely coughing and not vomiting. He stiffens, then coughs a little blood and dies
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Not in this category, but Clarice gets jizz thrown on her face walking back from talking to Dr lector by another patient at the facility. It is gross and may affect you
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eyesinthehills
Many key scenes take place in the institution in which Dr. Lecter is housed. There are a number of patients in the cells surrounding his.
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Calliopehoop
There is a scene at the end with a character breathing extremely heavy in panic for several minutes
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Buffalo Bill is shown experimenting with tucking, and is also shown using the skins of victims to make garments with breasts and female genitalia on them
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Ravesti
Dr. Lecter convinces Miggs, the inmate who assaulted Clarice during her previous visit, to kill himself.
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The main character discusses traumatic memories. Some flashbacks are shown.
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invadermac
Is cannibalism an eating disorder?
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Allandrel
A character is coded as transgender, although several characters (including hospitals that perform gender corrective surgery) claim that they are not transgender.
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xxlivlovesmusicxx
miggs pretends he’s harmed himself, saying ‘look at the blood’ but we don’t see anytime as he hasn’t
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areyouciarious
Miggs can be heard saying "I bit my wrist so I can die! See how it bleeds?" but he was lying.
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eyesinthehills
A character is trapped in a well. Another character must find their way out of a completely dark basement while trying to avoid being killed. Dr. Lecter's cell is rather small as well, and he remains in it for much of the film.
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Sid
Lots of them. The two main ones are Hannibal and Buffalo Bill, but some of Hannibal’s fellow mental patients are also violent as well
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Sid
The scene in buffalo bills basement in the dark
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frequent camera flashes &, police sirens on multiple occasions
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areyouciarious
Vulgar and sexual language is used throughout the film.
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devprodoubleoh
The killer has a blanket with swastikas on it. it is seen a couple times towards the end of the movie.
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Cryptid_Crow
Raspell, the head in the jar, is trans. Bill is not, as touched on in the movie, and gone over in depth in the book.
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TFMD
YMMV. The villain, serial killer Buffalo Bill, is portrayed as a "man who wants to be a woman" due to psychosis. Psychiatrists assert that Bill is mentally ill, and not actually a trans woman; Bill is always called "he". The film takes care to point out that "real" trans people are not serial killers. Because of this, I have heard some trans people argue that this film is unusually progressive for its time. Personally I disagree; it reinforces the idea that medical professionals deserve to decide who is and isn't trans. And obviously the film has been responsible for popularising harmful stereotypes of trans people, even if that wasn't the intent.
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cassandrasaurus
Buffalo Bill refers to one of his victims as “a big old fat person”
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adeliajbrown
No but the movie does contain homophobia and transphobia
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TheCassandraComplex
The movie handles transgender issues in a clumsy, dated way that can come off comical. The depiction of Buffalo Bill, a serial killer who is crafting himself a woman-suit, is often parodied. However, the film’s intention was not for this character’s behavior to be comedic.
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SiRenfield
Buffalo Bill is a bit complicated as he’s not an actual trans woman (and there’s even a scene in the novel that tries to both make it clear and try to humanize trans people more by distancing him from them) ,but it’s still pretty iffy
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areyouciarious
[00:05:41] - Several crime scene photos are briefly shown on a wall, some depicting nude corpses. These photos are also visible in the background of the scene for the next few minutes.⠀
[00:19:07] - An inmate in a forensic hospital is shown masturbating naked on a bed, with his back to the camera.⠀
[00:36:41] - Crime scene photos show a deceased nude woman lying on the ground, front side down.⠀
[00:46:15] - A nude cadaver is shown face down on a table during an autopsy.⠀
[00:49:50] - The character "Buffalo Bill" is shown sitting naked at a desk, with his back to the camera.⠀
[01:36:43] - There is full-frontal nudity shown during the scene where "Buffalo Bill" is dancing naked in a room, though his genitals are tucked between his legs.
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areyouciarious
Several different characters at different points in the film make sexual comments and/or advances towards the main character, ranging in degrees of severity and aggression.
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Ravesti
Clarice has s***n thrown at her by an inmate at the mental institution. One scene shows Buffalo Bill fully nude, though his genitals are tucked between his legs. Sexually suggestive language is used in some scenes.
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RachelH
[SPOILER] Buffalo Bill is killed and the girl is saved which I consider to be a happy ending for the film. However, Dr. Lector escapes and he eludes to Agent Starling that he is going to eat someone he knows. While He is having this conversation by phone we can see him watching Dr. Chilton and then following him through a crowd.
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Sid
Mostly from cops
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FishMan
No but corpses are retrieved from the river.
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