Why a Booktrail?
1990s: FBI trainee Clarice Starling needs the help of psychopathic cannibal Hannibal Lecter…
Silence of the Lambs
What you need to know before your trail
The serial killer nicknamed ‘Buffalo Bill’ has been capturing and starving women, then murdering and skinning them. FBI rookie Clarice Starling is assigned to solicit help from imprisoned psychopath Dr Hannibal ‘the Cannibal’ Lecter, whose insight into the depraved minds of serial killers is second to none.
But in exchange for inviting her into the darkest chambers of his mind, Hannibal begins to probe at hers, demanding knowledge of her childhood demons as the price of understanding Buffalo Bill’s.
Clarice knows how dangerous this man is, and the terrible things he can do with this information. But women are still disappearing, and time is running out…
Travel Guide
The Silence of the Lambs from book to screen
This is an extremely gory and violent film but one very fascinating into the mindset and actions of a serial killer.
The Silence of the Lambs film was primarily shot in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with some scenes shot in nearby northern West Virginia.
The home of Buffalo Bill was a house in Layton, Pennsylvania.
Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is actually the Western Center near Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
The main setting of the FBI AcademyPennsyu in Quantico is actually the real one and many agents got bit parts in the film!
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Silence of the Lambs
Destination: Pennsylvania Author/guide: Thomas Harris Departure: 1990s
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