Chiasmus cult cinema trailers - "SIlence of the Lambs" (1991). *These will be ongoing posts, courtesy of the A.Glass DVD collection. As I offer via Chiasmus Cult trailers, my summarized overviews*

Despite its obvious transphobic underpinnings, "Silence of the Lambs" (1991) based off the 1988 psychological crime novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, holds a captivating allure, particularly the performance of Anthony Hopkins who plays the cannibalistic serial killer and brilliant psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, as he psychoanalyses, in astounding well crafted script and performance, behind a plexiglass screen of Jodie Foster the inexperienced 'junior' FBI agent Clarice Starling, assigned to interview Hannibal Lecter while he is incarcerated within the basement of a Baltimore Mental Institution.  Thus, begins Starling and Lecter's psychodramatic relationship, where throughout the movie to its conclusion, Lecter offers the clues for Starling to track down the film's serial killer, "Buffalo Bill", in exchange of Starling disclosing her childhood trauma, which in turn has become her nightmares (the films title).  Silence of the Lambs, as mentioned is very much a transphobia movie, with its portrayal of Buffalo Bill, as the unstable serial killer, killing women and skinning them to make a 'skin suit'.  However, psychological profiling, up until when the film was released in 1991, of fictional serial killers was very much in the realm of Hollywood myth as masked wearing 'monsters', where Silence of the Lambs, even though it is a horror movie itself, showed how the day-to-day normalcy of a serial killer, is that societal paradox, until they are caught.  And all is revealed. 

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(A.Glass 2025)