If you’re looking for the perfect movie to watch this Halloween weekend, it would be hard to go wrong with a thriller that has spent more than three decades terrifying audiences.

The Silence of the Lambs , Jonathan Demme’s 1991 psychological thriller starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, was recently singled out by Collider as the “most amazing thriller movie ever made.” The film’s reputation is hardly a new development, but its near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes scores offer plenty of evidence for why it remains such an enduring Halloween watch.

The movie currently holds a 95% Tomatometer score from 161 critics and a 95% Popcornmeter score from more than 250,000 audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes .

That’s about as close to universal approval as a 35-year-old horror thriller can get.

‘The Silence of the Lambs’ Still Has a Terrifying Premise

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