Kelcie Mattson is a Senior Features author at Collider. Based in the Midwest, she also contributes Lists, reviews, and television recaps. A lifelong fan of niche sci-fi, epic fantasy, Final Girl ...

The Silence of the Lambs has embedded itself into the cultural lexicon with such lasting force that you’d think criminal mastermind Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) himself was behind its impact.