Phenomena (1985)
Directed by Dario Argento
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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What critics compared Phenomena to
While the beginning of the feature film promised the appearance of a “monster” like that of the brilliant Phenomena of Dario Argento, he finally plays more on the concept of double evil, like The Spirit of Cain Where The Dark Part .
Viewers who loved Dario Argento’s Phenomena (1985) the other week at the Thursday Horror Picture Show will definitely find much to like here.
The obvious bow is to his mostly forgotten effort Phenomena.
SCREENED AT THE 2008 SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: In the second scene of Dario Argento�s ("The Stendhal Syndrome," "Trauma," "Opera," "Phenomena," "Tenebrae," "Inferno," "Suspiria," "Deep Red," "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage") third film in his �Three Mothers� trilogy ("Suspiria" and "Inferno" were the first and second, respectively), "Mother of Tears: The Third Mother," hooded figures attack a woman, stab her in the mouth, slash her stomach, and strangle her with her own intestines while a malevolent monkey screeches nearby.
Whether fans and critics like it or not, Dario Argento is fond of two genres he revisits with predictable regularity: the giallo (Deep Red, Sleepless) and the supernatural thriller (Suspiria, Inferno), and it shouldn't surprise anyone that The Card Player (a giallo cum police procedural thriller) was followed by The Mother of Tears (the final installment in his Three Mothers trilogy), and is to be followed by Giallo (self-explanatory) in 2009, which may well be followed by a supernatural thriller (perhaps called Boo!) soon after.