Phenomena

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.

Cast

Jennifer Connelly

as Jennifer Corvino

Daria Nicolodi

as Frau Brückner

Fiore Argento

as Vera Brandt

Federica Mastroianni

as Sophie

Fiorenza Tessari

as Gisela Sulzer

Dalila Di Lazzaro

as Headmistress

Patrick Bauchau

as Inspector Rudolf Geiger

Donald Pleasence

as Professor John McGregor

Alberto Cracco

as UBS Bank Teller

Kaspar Capparoni

as Karl, Sophie's Boyfriend

Reviews

John Chard

Phenomena, doo-doo doo-doo-doo. Arriving at a Swiss Academy for girls, Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) gets embroiled in the workings of a serial killer. Her friends the insects and Professor John McGregor (Donald Pleasence) are on hand to help if possible. Directed and co-written by horr...

talisencrw

Both a great chance to see two acting icons (one, Donald Pleasence, at his prime, and the other, Jennifer Connelly, just starting out on her filmic journey) and one of the films on director Argento's great run of horror classics, this is worth purchasing the finest print and will award the horror af...

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