Jonathan Demme’s film is one of the most important films of the 1990s winning Oscars for best film, director, actor, actress and adapted screenplay. This was groundbreaking because a film with such lurid subject matter (it is the tale of two serial killers) had never achieved this status before. The film could be described as a hybrid genre film mixing the police procedural/detective thriller genre with the horror movie. In terms of technique, the director based a lot of it on his study of Alfred Hitchcock’s films and in particular how Hitchcock strikes a balance between identification and suspense. “I.
