Now alone against a sadistic psychopath, Jennifer mistakenly takes shelter with Frau Brückner (Daria Nicolodi) who turns out to be the mother of the deformed creature that has been doing all the killing. When the unlikely duo gets too close to discovering the truth, the killer comes after Professor McGregor. They decide to use her strange gift to catch the killer. McGregor’s hypothesis proves to be true as Jennifer soon realizes that she can communicate with insects. He seems to think that Jennifer’s sleepwalking is a symptom of burgeoning mental powers. She meets wheelchair bound Professor John McGregor (Donald Pleasence), an entomologist living with his helper chimpanzee who’s been enlisted by the police to help track down the murderer. Jennifer has a sleepwalking problem and one night while she is wandering around the closed section of the school, she witnesses a girl being murdered by a psychotic killer. The film starts as Jennifer Corvino (played by Jennifer Connelly), the daughter of a famous actor, arrives at a Swiss boarding school. Imagine if your fantasy world got caught in the kitchen disposal and then you were able to film it the end result would look a whole lot like Phenomena. It’s a ridiculous world of tangible impossibilities with an atmosphere of doom and insanity hanging around every corner. Released in 1985, Dario Argento’s twisted fairy-tale masterpiece has always had a strange effect on me. Whenever the wind is in the trees, I think of Phenomena and nothing feels right or normal in the best way.
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