Silence Of The Lambs And The Shining

Both Silence of the Lambs (1991) & The Shining (1980) were extremely successful in creating suspense, fear of death, and early spoilers within the movie. In Silence of the Lambs, the most suspenseful scene was when Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) went into the serial killer’s room without knowing that the person in the room was the serial killer. It was terrifying after figuring out that Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) broke into the wrong person’s house and Clarice was in extreme danger without her knowing. The Shining also had several suspenseful scenes. For example, when Hallorann (Scatman Crothers) first entered the hotel and was yelling out if people were in the hotel was terrifying because he was unarmed and Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) was walking around with a saw in his hand, wanting to kill anyone in his path. Another suspenseful scene was when Danny (Danny Lloyd) was riding his bike around the hotel and suddenly the twin girls in his visions appeared out of nowhere in the hallway. They were talking to Danny and suddenly, they slowly got closer and closer to Danny after Danny sees them lying dead in the hallway.

In Silence of the Lambs, the scene where Clarice was in the same room as the serial killer and the lights were out was frightening because the serial killer could see Clarice, but Clarice couldn’t see the serial killer. The serial killer took his time, following Clarice around the room before reaching out and touching her. In The Shining, the scene where Jack Torrance was breaking the door with his saw and trying to kill his wife and kid was a also a great fear of death scene because it made the audience think that Jack was going to kill his wife. Also, when Danny was running around the maze with his father following him with a saw created a fear of death scene because everyone thought that either Jack was going to kill Danny or one of them would get lost in the maze and freeze to