Re "As a result I didn't see such highly acclaimed films like Silence of the Lambs":
Me neither! And horror is my favourite genre. (And I really like Jodie Foster.) But as I've said before, I like atmospheric, art-house horror like Don't Look Now rather than being seriously scared or having my nose rubbed in degrading violence. The emergence of "torture porn" like Saw and its offshoots has also passed me by.
