The Silence Of The Lambs Blu-Ray

After an early career directing low-budget exploitation films for producer Roger Corman, Jonathan Demme was best known in the 1990s for making offbeat comedies (Something Wild, Married to the Mob) and music documentaries (Stop Making Sense) - that is, until he signed on to adapt Thomas Harris's best-selling thriller The Silence of the Lambs for the screen. The resulting film—a dark, captivating nightmare vision of psychopathology—won five Oscars* and made the cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter a household name.

FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster, The Accused) races against time to stop a serial killer, nicknamed "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine, Heat), before he strikes again. To solve the case, she risks her own sanity by consulting the malicious psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, Nixon). The sinister Dr. Lecter is a master manipulator and offers important information that could be the key to revealing the killer's identity—but at a price. Clarice must open up primary events from her past to Lecter's threatening curiosity and confront the trauma that drives her search for justice.A deeply disturbing exploration of human evil, The Silence of the Lambs changed the face of the serial killer genre and remains a highly influential, groundbreaking classic of mystery, suspense, and psychological horror.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

High-definition Blu-ray presentation (1080p)

Newly restored lossless 2.0 stereo audio track in originalp>

Lossless 5.1 audio track as an option

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing as an option

Audio commentary by critics Elizabeth Purchell & Caden Mark Gardner

Audio commentary by critic Tim Lucas

Through Her Eyes, visual essay on the theme of transformation by critic Justine Peres Smith

Healing Humanity, visual essay exploring perspective and personalization by critic Willow Catelyn Maclay

Breaking the Silence, archival picture-in-picture interviews and trivia questions

2002 episode of the Bravo TV series Page to Screen focusing on The Silence of the Lambs

Scoring the Silence, 2004 archival interview with composer Howard Shore

Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster, 2005 three-part archival documentary by Laurent Bouzereau

Understanding the Madness, 2008 archive film featuring various FBI alumni discussing the profiling of serial killers

1991's "Making Of" featurette

22 deleted scenes

Additional 7 deleted scenes, taken from a VHS copy

Outtakes

Anthony Hopkins' phone message

Theatrical trailer

Teaser trailer

11 TV commercials

Picture gallery

Reversible sleeve with two choices of original artwork