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Thanks for listening. Hello and welcome to another episode of Flashback, Slate's Podcast about Older and Classic Movies.

This time we're going to be talking about Jonathan Demi's 1991, Mega Smash, five-time Academy Award winner,

Silence of the Lambs, which was the suggestion of my co-host, Kay Austin Collins from Vanity Fair.

Hey, Kim.

Hi, how's it going?

Pretty good, except that you made me watch Silence of the Lambs twice.

For the first time in, I don't know, possibly since it came out.

I'm not sure.

I mean, I'm pretty easily scared by certain things and this movie has a lot of them like

Dead Body stuff always scares me a lot and this movie has some pretty gross autopsies and stuff like that

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