PHENOMENA (1984)



PHENOMENA poster artwork for US version entitled CREEPERS


JENNIFER CONNELLY.....Jennifer Corvino
DONALD PLEASENCE.....Professor John McGregor
DARIA NICOLODI.....Mrs. Bruckner
PATRICK BAUCHAU.....Inspector Rudolf Geiger
DALILA DI LAZZARO.....Headmistress

Directed and Produced by DARIO ARGENTO
Written by DARIO ARGENTO and FRANCO FERRINI


REVIEW BY JON PARELES


The gore starts spattering in earnest too late to save Creepers, a dim-witted horror movie that opened yesterday at the RKO Warner and other theaters. It creaks along for its first hour or so, failing to work up any chills as a killer terrorizes a Swiss girls' school that has cuckoo clocks in every salon. Jennifer Connelly, as the teen-age heroine, was apparently chosen because she can hold a fly on her hand without flinching. The plot toys with the idea that she can communicate with insects-allowing such special effects as a moving white dot that's supposed to be a moving fly-then hauls out the knives, chains, skulls, and maggots. The best acting is by an expressive, resourceful chimpanzee-definitely the year's Best Supporting Primate.





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Poster artwork © 1985 NEW LINE CINEMA. All Rights Reserved.

Title and logo designed by Karen Rappaport




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