10 Haunting Deaths In Horror Movies (That We Never See)

10. Lieutenant Boyle - The Silence Of The Lambs

There are few characters in horror who curdle our blood more than Hannibal Lecter. Being a deranged cannibal, it's clear the chianti-loving doctor has an animalistic side.

However, Hannibal is scarier when he maintains his gentile demeanour. When he behaves politely to the correction officers in The Silence of the Lambs, we know this is the calm before the storm.

Sure enough, Lecter frees himself from his restraints and overpowers the two guards. After handcuffing Lieutenant Boyle, he maces Sergeant Pembry, leaving the pair completely helpless. Although it's horrible to watch Hannibal take a big bite out of Pembry's cheek, what he does to Boyle is more hard-hitting.

As the guard pleads for his life, the liver-guzzling psychiatrist beats him to death with his own nightstick. Rather than showing Boyle's face being pulverised to mush, the camera focuses on the good doctor's reaction. After being chastised by the officers, we assume Hannibal's face would be filled with an unquenchable ferocity.

Instead, he strikes the officer with harmonious and mechanical force. Ironically, this makes the scene more frightening, since it makes Hannibal come across as an unfeeling automaton, rather than a human being.