Phenomena

1985 115 min ★ 6.8 Horror, Thriller

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.

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Cast

Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Corvino

Daria Nicolodi

Frau Brückner

Fiore Argento

Vera Brandt

Federica Mastroianni

Sophie Brook

Fiorenza Tessari

Gisela Sulzer

Dalila Di Lazzaro

Headmistress Yetz

Patrick Bauchau

Inspector Rudolf Geiger

Donald Pleasence

Professor John McGregor

Alberto Cracco

UBS Bank Teller

Kaspar Capparoni

Karl, Sophie's Boyfriend

Details

Director

Dario Argento

Screenplay

Dario Argento

Tagline

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

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$3,800,000

Production

DACFILM Rome

Reviews

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John Chard

October 3, 2014

★ 6/10

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...

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talisencrw

May 9, 2016

★ 8/10

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...