Since posting my blog last Friday, I’ve received some feedback on the The Silence of the IPAMs video that was uploaded to YouTube last week. I thought I’d share the general categories with you. They were roughly as follows:

1) Nice – it was really refreshing to see something different!

2) Hmmm… Howcome Engineer Darling has blond hair and wears a skirt? That’s not for real, at least not in our data centre (editor’s comment: there are many other things in this film too that are not to be taken for real…)

3) It seemed professionally produced, but I felt discomfort watching it because it combined humour with murder.

Now, I know we took a small risk in putting this production online, because we were fairly certain not everyone has seen the original version of The Silence of the Lambs, having been released 20 years ago and all. On the other hand, the original remains one of only three films ever to have won the top five Academy Awards, so we figured there should be enough people out there able to pick up the references, and to enjoy the resulting dark comedy. Especially as the title of our remake is really a bit of a giveaway…

Below, please find both the original scene and our remake. The original is a bit shorter, but if you fast forward to 1:33 or thereabout in our remake, you should find our version of the famous “Rube” monologue.

Discomforting or not? You’ll be the judge.