![]() ![]() Horror movie fans had seen it all before, of course. By 1992, T-shirts were available featuring your favourite mad psycho, comics were sensationally re-telling the ‘true’ stories behind the grisly crimes and there was even a serial killer board game. In the States, the serial killer had already attained a bizarre cult status, the random, multiple slayings of complete strangers becoming a sort of modern folk mythology. Serial murder became a hot box office property following the release and subsequent global success of The Silence of the Lambs (1991), which briefly made the serial killer flavour of the month and which earned star Anthony Hopkins an Oscar, a knighthood and a certain amount of immortality as crap impressionists everywhere reeled out his fava beans speech.
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