Is Slience Of The Lambs a horror film?

Silence of The Lambs is already a very old movie. I watched it for several times. Actually I don't think this movie is very horrible. I don't understand why people say it is one of the best horror movies and this movie won some prizes, I think. A movie like Hostel is much more horrible than Silence of The Lambs. I love China

A crime thriller or psychological thriller would be more suitable for The Silence of the Lambs, it's not quiet the horror type. The Silence of the Lambs was quiet an excellent film to watch, it's kind of a film which can be seen over and over again ...

THe way is scared the beegeevers out of me I would classify it as a horror film....I can hardly watch it....after reading the book...Jack the Ripper and other killers I think its gave me insite and made me even more scared of things represented like what is in this movie!

Firstly it's a thriller plain and simple with a clearly defined crime/detective/cop element. But it does have elements of horror to it and as such it's often classed as both, a thriller and a horror. Or at least that's my perception of the movie.

Whenever I see this title I always remember that scene where Anthony Hopkins just lured the two cops into his cage, and he has just managed to handcuff one on one of the bars, and he was getting ready to hit the cop with his stick. I could still see his face and the almost graceful motion he did as he waved the stick on top of him after every hit. Horror film or not, I think it was good film. Maybe you're right, it was a crime drama!

its not horror.. its a thriller... ei! psychodrama.... :) its good film...

This film is not a horror film. It's more of a suspense kind of film. A psychological thriller or psychological suspense film.

I have recently seen the movie silence of the lambs. I don't think it is a horror movie. It is just a thriller movie.

It is definitely a crime thriller but it does blend some horror elements. I never really cared much for the movie but I did like the character of Lector.

No, it is not a horror since there was no ghost, i think it is a suspense at most, and more of psychological and criminal since it deals with finding a killer and also with the past of the girl and why the killer does what he does.

I agree with you , my friend watched it on DVD and she was like it was a good horror movie .May be people find that man eater and all that stuff horrifying .But i also never thought of it as a horror movie , it indeed was a crime drama .

It's not a horror film in the true sense. It's a thriller or drama that is horrifying.

i've never heard about it ^^ but just from the title i see that it's a horror film ^^ have a nice day

If it walks like a duck, squawks like a duck, it probably is a duck. Just too many comments bear this out - that they did not think the film a horror, but a crime movie. They all cannot be wrong as they are the viewers and know what they like and what they don't. It does not matter what a reviewer writes about a film - they have to write good and positive things - it's what the view thinks and experience. Bottom line: The Rite is a dud.