| Phenomena | | Cast : | Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence | | Director : | Dario Argento | | Studio : | Anchor Bay Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | August 02, 1985 | | DVD Released Date : | March 16, 1999 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | Unrated | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 13, 2005 | | Summary | Creepy, effective horror | Content
 | A few months back, I saw my first Dario Argento film, Suspiria, a creepy little thriller that looked great, sounded great and had a flawed but passable story. Phenomena, my second exposure to Argento, has similar qualities but is a slightly inferior movie.
Like Suspiria, this movie focuses on an American female who is sent to an eerie boarding school in Central Europe. In this case, Jennifer Connelly (in one of her earliest starring roles) plays Jennifer, the teenaged daughter of a wealthy but completely absent father who has sent her off to a Swiss boarding school. Jennifer has a psychic affinity with insects which help provide her clues about a local serial killer.
Donald Pleasance is a wheelchair-bound scientist who befriends Jennifer and assists her in investigating the killer. Fortunately, the killer likes to keep parts of the bodies, attracting flies which help Jennifer.
Although the acting and writing is not very good (Connelly is still a good decade away from her Oscar caliber work), the movie makes up for it with the direction, settings and soundtrack by Goblin (who were even more effective in Suspiria) and various other musicians such as Iron Maiden and Bill Wyman. If you don't like bugs; this isn't the movie for you; in particular, this is one of the most maggot-filled movies ever. Otherwise, this is an effective - if minor - horror movie that merits watching.
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| Rating | | | Date | March 27, 2005 | | Summary | Real good Dario A rgento film | Content
| This movie is very entertaining and spicial FX are pretty good to it has a great story with great charecters its about this girl who moves to a new school were people make fun of her because she says she can control bugs then all kinds of bugs fly to windows of the school to help there master then the girl meets a professor whos working on finding a murderer and has a pet monkey then professor gets killed (by you dont yet)while the monkey trys to killer the killer then we go back to the girl whos trying to go to a diffrent school and a teacher from the school acts nice and lets her stay at her house till the flight leaves tommro (BAD IDEA)she finds out the teacher is crazy and has a (UGLY AS HELL MUTATED SON)who the teacher uses to kill people (NOW YOU KNOW WHO THE KILLER IS) the girl meets a detective who was being tortured by the teacher and is chained to a wall next to a pool full of MAGGOTS,WORMS,HUMEN PARTS,etc.he see the girl fall into the pool and see the teacher laughing he peels alot of skin of his hands to get out of the chains and grabes the teacher to kill her girl gets out of pool and run out the house then all the sudden that mutateed kids back to kill her right before she got a away she calls the bugs which eat the mutated kid to the bone COOL SPECIAL FX she run away when all the sudden the teacher is there agin CUT UP RELLY BAD THOUGH DECTECTIVE RELLY LET HER HAVE IT then when the teacher is about to kill her the monkey comes out of no where and stabs her in the head like 6 times with a knife it found in the trash END> the reason i rated it 4 instead of 5 was it had a good beggining and RELLY GOOD END but the middle was a little slow still this movie is a must have for DARIO ARGENTO FANS
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| Rating | | | Date | December 16, 2004 | | Summary | Night of Terror | Content
| Argento seems to have lost his complete touch on films after the 1980's but his horror films are still worth watching and above average, almost filled with an artistic intent. Creepers is a little film about an odd case of communicating with bugs and savage killers. I especially liked the weird creature found inside the film, I won't give it away so you have to watch. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 04, 2004 | | Summary | An Argento Delight | Content
| If you're a fan of Argento then Phenomena is a must see - unless of course you're too afraid of the creepy crawlies. Fabulous soundtrack. |
| Rating | | | Date | November 22, 2004 | | Summary | Yuck | Content
| God awful movie...this movie is total garbage. I picked this up out of the used bin at a local video store hopeing to get a good midnight horror flick with Donald Pleasance. The movie starts out with a promise, then takes a serious nose dive. Thank god I only paid $5.00 for it. Beware! |
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