While I have been spending some time on the subject of shadow people and the hat man, there are times when I need to take a break. When I do, I love to jump back in time to some of the horror films that made me love the genre. This 1985 Dario Argento film is one of those, Phenomena (AKA Creepers)
Plot: A young girl who has 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.
This has always been a polarizing work, much like a lot of Argento's works. For me, it was one of the first movies I encountered by him and helped me fall in love with his imaginative and stylistic approach to horror. The cast is alright and the performances are uneven, but this do little to bring diem things interesting story filed with the concepts, visuals, and details that always cry out in an Argento film. Yes, the storyline does have some plot holes and there are side technical issues, but this one is one of the better Argento films and one that everyone should see.
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