The Silence Of The Lambs premiered thirty years ago today,
featured at the time in Empire, horror crashing Valentine’s Day like Universal’s
Dracula before it. Cementing the “genius serial killer” archetype, it led to
Red Dragon being remade as a prequel after the previous
Manhunter took a different spin on it, and has since provided the basis for
a classic TV series and
a brand new one each featuring one of the main characters in the title role.
As well as non-supernatural horror, its effect on SF/F includes more than a little inspiration for The X Files, and as a result Delta Green tends to look this way in my head as well.
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