Episode 368: Silence Of The Lambs vs The Russian Sleep Experiment

Experiments and serial killers make for terrifying stories because they combine two very different kinds of fear: the cold, calculated pursuit of knowledge and the unpredictable cruelty of a human being who has lost all sense of morality. Experiments can go horribly wrong, unleashing consequences that nobody anticipated, while a serial killer represents something much more disturbingly real… the possibility that an ordinary person could hide a monstrous secret. Put the two together, and you have a nightmare in which science, obsession, and murder become impossible to separate.