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Overview

User Rating:
6.8/10   5,324 votes
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Director:
Dario Argento
Writers:
Dario Argento (screenplay)
Dario Argento (story)
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Release Date:
2 August 1985 (USA) more
Tagline:
Jennifer Has A Few Million Close Friends. She's Going To Need Them _All_. more
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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(13 articles)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jennifer Connelly ... Jennifer Corvino
Daria Nicolodi ... Frau Brückner
Dalila Di Lazzaro ... Headmistress

Patrick Bauchau ... Inspector Rudolf Geiger

Donald Pleasence ... Professor John McGregor
Fiore Argento ... Vera Brandt
Federica Mastroianni ... Sophie
Fiorenza Tessari ... Gisela Sulzer
Mario Donatone ... Morris Shapiro
Francesca Ottaviani ... Nurse
Michele Soavi ... Kurt, Geiger's Assistant

Franco Trevisi ... Real Estate Agent
Fausta Avelli ... Schoolgirl
Marta Biuso ... Schoolgirl
Sophie Bourchier ... Schoolgirl
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Creepers (USA)
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Runtime:
110 min | 116 min (integral version) | USA:110 min (re-release) | USA:82 min (edited version)
Country:
Italy
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Netherlands:16 | Argentina:16 (re-rating) | Argentina:18 (original rating) | New Zealand:R16 | Australia:R (as "Creepers") (DVD rating) (cut) | Australia:R (as "Phenomena) (DVD rating) (uncut) | Australia:R (original rating) | Denmark:15 (video premiere) | France:-12 | Italy:VM14 | Norway:18 (video premiere) | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | USA:Unrated (director's cut) | West Germany:18 | Finland:K-18
Company:
DACFILM Rome more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The role of creepy Patua Bruckner was played by a 26 year old dwarf in heavy makeup. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: The girl in the opening is allegedly Danish, but clearly speaks Norwegian. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The House That Freddy Built (2006) (V) more
Soundtrack:
The Wind more

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17 out of 22 people found the following comment useful.
Total Cult, 12 January 2006
7/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

In Switzerland, the teenager Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly), daughter of a famous actor, arrives in an expensive board school and shares her room with the French schoolmate Sophie (Federica Mastroianni). Jennifer is a sleepwalker, is capable of telepathically communicate with insects and has adaptation problem in the new school. While sleepwalking, she meets and becomes friend of a Scottish entomologist, Prof. John McGregor (Donald Pleasence), and his chimpanzee Tonga. Jennifer decides to help the investigation of Dr. McGregor about a serial killer that is killing young girls in that area.

It may sound ridiculous, but "Phenomena" has never been released on video in Brazil; only two days ago, "Phenomena" was released on DVD in Brazil and now I am glad to have this movie in my collection. The weird story of Dario Argento, one of my favorite directors, is a total cult, showing bizarre characters and situations, maggots, flies, deformed people, serial killer and lots of bodies and body parts. A fifteen years old Jennifer Connelly in her third work, extremely beautiful, shines in the very original role of a sleepwalker that is very connected to insects and develop the skill of communicate with them. Daria Nicolodi, the mother of Asia Argento and former mate of Dario Argento, has a minor, but very important role. And the versatile Donald Pleasence, in the role of a paraplegic researcher, is efficient as usual. The music score, with Goblin, Iron Maiden and Motorhead, is another great attraction of this movie. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Phenomena"

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