10 Surprising Horror Movie Cameos

10. George A. Romero Appears In The Silence Of The Lambs

Jonathan Demme, like many directors who grew out of the 1970s cinema brat boom, got start under the tutelage of exploitation producer/director Roger Corman.

As a producer, Corman cared little about plot as long as the films he dumped money into showed good returns - giving the likes of Martin Scorsese and Demme free rein so long as they met a certain quota of sex and violence.

Demme certainly paid his former mentor back in his Best Picture-winner The Silence of the Lambs, giving Corman a dialogue-heavy role, but he also made room for another fellow director.

In a blink-and-you'll miss it moment, George A. Romero appears as one of the guards who forcibly removes Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) from her last in-person conversation with Hannibal Lecter (Sir Anthony Hopkins. Incidentally, since the film's release, six directors appear including Corman and Romero.