History Film / TheSilenceOfTheHams

With a [[SarcasmMode star-studded]] cast featuring writer/director Ezio Greggio as [[Film/{{Psycho}} Antonio Motel]], Creator/DomDeluise as [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza]], Creator/BillyZane as [[Creator/JodieFoster FBI Agent Jo Dee Fostar]], Creator/JoannaPacula and Charlene Tilton as Lily and Jane Wine, Creator/MartinBalsam as [[TheDanza Detective Martin Balsam]] and Stuart Pankin as Inspector Pete Putrid, ''Hams'' was universally panned and faded into the deepest recesses of obscurity.

With a [[SarcasmMode star-studded]] cast featuring writer/director Ezio Greggio as [[Film/{{Psycho}} Antonio Motel]], Creator/DomDeluise as [[Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza]], Creator/BillyZane as [[Creator/JodieFoster FBI Agent Jo Dee Fostar]], Creator/JoannaPacula and Charlene Tilton as Lily and Jane Wine, Martin Balsam as [[TheDanza Detective Martin Balsam]] and Stuart Pankin as Inspector Pete Putrid, ''Hams'' was universally panned and faded into the deepest recesses of obscurity.

* BadgeGag: Agent Joe Dee Fostar flashes a waffle to the prison security instead of ID.
* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Parodied when FBI Agent Jo Dee Fostar consults with Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza. The doctor is so insane that he sometimes violates the laws of physics.
* ElongatingArmGag: There's a gag where a midget guard at the prison for mentally insane criminals directs Agent Fostar to a file on Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza lying on top of a very tall cabinet. Fostar, who's about 6 feet tall, can't reach it, then the guard groans and extends his arm so he can easily grab it for him.
* EverybodyLives: At the end every character who was killed during the movie turns out to be alive because of a LatexPerfection disguise.

* InteractiveNarrator: At one point Jo corrects the narrator when he says that Jane stole 400 dollars--it was 400,000 dollars.
* LatexPerfection: This is parodied in the ending, when basically every character in the film reveals themselves to be wearing a latex mask (e.g. Antonio's mother disguising herself as her son, Detective Balsam disguising himself as Lily, Jo disguising himself as Antonio's mother's corpse). It's so prolongued that by the end the characters are placing bets on it.
* LaughablyEvil: As befits a parody. Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza is an amiable psychopath played by Dom Deluise, and a practical jokester.
* MadeInCountryX: When Detective Balsam turns up alive, he's asked who was killed. Balsam replies that it was "[=RoboCrap=]: Japanese version of ''Franchise/RoboCop''".
* NoKillLikeOverkill: In a Psycho scene parody, Antonio kills Jo by stabbing her by a knife, then shooting her with a gun, an assault rifle and a ''rocket launcher''. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by a newspapers title stating ''Killer may be helped by an army''.

* RapidFireComedy: There's a joke at least once a minute, varying between [[ShoutOut shout-outs]], [[VisualPun visual gags]], and lengthier sketches.
* PsychoShowerMurderParody: Also spoofed at the end of the film, which is something of a parody mix between ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' and ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. The killer in question is Alfred Hitchcock, who kills the director of ''Hams'' in the shower for making fun of his film. Then it turns out it was Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza (Creator/DomDeLuise) wearing a latex mask.

* ExtendableArms: There's a gag where a midget guard at the prison for mentally insane criminals directs Agent Fostar to a file on Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza lying on top of a very tall cabinet. Fostar (who's about 6 feet tall) can't reach it, then the guard groans and extends his arm so he can easily grab it for him.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: In a Psycho scene parody, Antonio kills Jo by stabbing her by a knife, then shooting her with a gun, an assault rifle and a ''rocket launcher''. [[LamsphadeHanging Lampshaded]] by a newspapers title stating ''Killer may be helped by an army''.

* ParodyNames: Billy Zane's FBI Agent is named [[Creator/JodieFoster Jo Dee Fostar]].

* ConsultingAConvictedKiller: Parodied when FBI Agent Jo Dee Fostar consults with Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza.

''The Silence of the Hams'' is a 1994 spoof movie of the RapidFireComedy type. It combines and spoofs the plots of ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' (FBI Agent consults with a convicted killer) and ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' (woman steals money from her employer before being murdered by an insane motel manager).