Quentin Tarantino Thinks ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Is More Terrifying Than SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Never know to be exactly humble, today writer-director Quentin Tarantino swings for the fences. Yes, he boasts that his newest flick Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is more terrifying than Jonathan Demme’s adaptation of The Silence of The Lambs.
He tells Empire Film Podcast: “When you watch the movie with an audience the first time… it achieves something I think is difficult to achieve in a movie. It achieves terror. The audience is terrified for Cliff and the air in the theater changes. They are genuinely afraid. That sequence [the ending of Silence of the Lambs] is magnificent. I would push back on one aspect of it though. I’ve seen some movies before. I did not think Jodie Foster was going to die. At that point in the movie, I would have been surprised if it ended with Buffalo Bill killing Jodie Foster. No, I’ve seen too many movies to think that was actually going to happen… One of the reasons that that [Spahn Ranch] works so effectively is because Cliff could die.
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He continues: “There’s a difference between suspense and terror. It’s razor-thin [and] as wide as the Grand Canyon. Suspense is ‘what’s going to happen?’ Terror is [when] you know exactly what is going to happen and you don’t want to see it.”
Do you think the Spahn Ranch scene is more terrifying than Silence of the Lambs?
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