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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with Doctor Bernice Murphy, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, a Halloween treat. Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 23rd best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded and released especially for Halloween.
• Recorded 13th October 2018.
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• The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture by Bernice Murphy, October 2013.
• Daniel Fierman at Entertainment Weekly on the sad story of Hannibal Rising, February 2007.
• Thomas Harris announces his first book since Hannibal Rising, October 2018.
• Anthony Hopkins confesses to Entertainment Weekly that he regrets making sequels to The Silence of the Lambs, December 2016.
• Billy Crystal is wheeled on to the stage as Hannibal Lecter at the 64th Academy Awards, March 1992.
• Harold Leacher in National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1, April 1993.
• Nathan Rabin at The Dissolve on how time and parody has not dulled The Silence of the Lambs, February 2015.
• David Sims at The Atlantic on how The Silence of the Lambs legitimised the serial killer genre, February 2018.
• Jane Hu at The Ringer discusses the contemporary trend towards “elevated” horror, June 2018.
• April Wolfe at The Washington Post on modern horror’s point of intersection with the mainstream, April 2018.
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky at The A.V. Club discusses the skill with which The Silence of the Lambs is put together, April 2017.
• Stacy Conradt at Mental Floss on the influence of Ed Gein on American popular culture, August 2016.
• Alan Alda demonstrates how easy it is to sell an Atari computer, 1983.
• K.E. Sullivan in Jump Cut on Ed Gein and the transgendered serial killer, July 2000.
• Alex Beasley at The Orlando Sentinel on the sexual sadism of Ted Bundy, January 1989.
• David Sexton at The Guardian on the literary lineage of Hannibal Lecter, August 2001.
• Michelle Pfeiffer appears in the video for Coolio’s Gangsta’s Paradise, September 1995.
• Nathan Rabin at The Dissolve on the curious cultural opinion on Hannibal Lecter, October 2013.
• Max Boot on The New York Times on anti-intellectualism in American life, August 2016.
• Elizabeth Mitchell at The Smithsonian Magazine laments the lack of public intellectuals in contemporary American life, July 2017.
• David Sims at The Atlantic on the enduring appeal of Hannibal Lecter, June 2015.
• Brian Cox discusses the role of Hannibal Lecter with Den of Geek, September 2011.
• Mads Mikkelsen advertises Carlsberg, October 2017.
• Bryan Fuller talks to Bloody Disgusting about Hannibal as an expression of his curiousity concerning straight male friendship, December 2015.
• Marilyn Stasio at The New York Times on the explosion of serial killer literature in the late eighties, October 1989.
• Psycho Paths by Philip L. Simpson, October 2000.
• Kristen Lopez at Film School Rejects on the legacy of Single White Female, March 2018.
• Shelby Lin Erdman at The Atlanta Journal Constitution on the difference between spree killers, serial killers and mass murderers, October 2017.
• Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol J. Clover, March 1993.
• In Voorhees We Trust by Gorley and Rust, August 2018.
• Halloween Unmasked by Amy Nicholson at The Ringer, September 2018.
• The filmography of Darla, the dog who played “Precious.”
• Ammu Kannampilly reports on the Palme Dog for ABC News, October 2007.
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