Phenomena (film)

Phenomena is a 1985 horror film directed by Dario Argento. It is also known as Creepers.

Phenomena
Directed by	Dario Argento
Written by	Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini
Produced by	Angelo Jacono, Dario Argento
Starring	Jennifer Connelly Daria Nicolodi Dalila Di Lazzaro Donald Pleasance Patrick Bauchau
Cinematography	Romano Albani
Edited by	Franco Fraticelli
Music by	Simon Boswell, Goblin, Bill Wyman
Distributed by	Anchor Bay Entertainment (USA, DVD)
Release date	1985
Running time	110 min, 82 min (USA, edited)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian & English
Budget	$3,800,000 (estimated)

Jennifer Connelly stars as a young girl who arrives at an eerie Swiss boarding school where the students are being butchered by a vicious serial killer. With the help of a wheelchair-bound scientist (played by Donald Pleasence) she discovers she has special powers, and uses them to pursue the killer before she becomes the next victim.

Synopsis

Release history

For its US release, Phenomena was retitled as Creepers and heavily edited to remove nearly thirty minutes of footage. The murder sequences were shortened by several seconds to remove gore, a sequence where the second victim is spotted and chased by the killer was removed, and two lengthy scenes (which make up the bulk of the missing footage) involving Jennifer Connelly's character telling her roommate the story about how her mother abandoned the family and her character receiving a brain scan after the second murder were removed for the purposes of speeding up the flow of the film.

Anchor Bay released the film to DVD in 1999; restoring the film's proper name and restoring all missing scenes from the original US release. However, in a controversial move, Dario Argento had several scenes shortened.^{[citation needed]}

The original film (or Integral cut) of the film is available in Europe, on Region 2 DVD.

The film's score features music by Bill Wyman, Iron Maiden and Motörhead.

External link

• Phenomena at IMDb
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