10 Least Romantic Movies Ever Released On Valentine's Day
1. The Silence Of The Lambs
It’s February 14 1991: George H.W. Bush is President, The Simpsons is midway through its second season and the only new film in American theaters is an adaptation of a Thomas Harris novel about an FBI trainee who enters into a bizarre relationship with a cannibalistic serial killer.
It’s hard to believe now, but there was a time when not ever crime novel or TV show was about serial killers. Thomas Harris began that trend with his novel Red Dragon, and if The Silence Of The Lambs isn’t quite as good, you have to admit he was pretty well served by the film adaptation.
The first movie since One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest to bag all the top Oscars (Actor, Actress, Director, Film, Screenplay), Silence is, like all trendsetting movies, both the best and worst thing that ever happened to the genre.
While it raised the bar for what a horror movie could be (who’d have thought you could win an Oscar for biting a guy’s face off?), it also paved the way for Hannibal (2000), Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising. Which frankly is unforgivable.