Phenomena

Jennifer has a few million close friends. She's going to need them all!

Sinopse

A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

6.8
1985
Released
1h 50m

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

$3,800,000.00

Keywords

#daughter
#insect
#boarding school
#psychopath
#telepathy
#detective
#switzerland
#girls' boarding school
#murder
#serial killer
#teenage girl
#school
#maniac
#american abroad
#chimpanzee
#murder investigation
#sleepwalking
#recurring dream
#sanitorium
#swiss
#entomologist
#maggots
#flies
#service animal
#animals & nature
#fly
#whimsical

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Reviews

@talisencrwover 9 years ago

Both a great chance to see two acting icons (one, Donald Pleasence, at his prime, and the other, Jennifer Connelly, just starting out on her filmic journey) and one of the films on director Argento's great run of horror classics, this is worth purchasing the finest print and will award the horror aficionado many great times in rewatches. Cinephiles often called Argento 'the Italian Alfred Hitchcoc

@John Chardabout 11 years ago

Phenomena, doo-doo doo-doo-doo. Arriving at a Swiss Academy for girls, Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) gets embroiled in the workings of a serial killer. Her friends the insects and Professor John McGregor (Donald Pleasence) are on hand to help if possible. Directed and co-written by horror legend Dario Argento, Phenomena is a mixed bag. Ignoring the butchered American version, which wa