![]() ![]() Jennifer’s love for all insects makes her a particularly spiritual and complex Argento heroine. She’s like a wayward Gretal led into Argento’s fairy-tale forest by a glowing bug. While lost in the woods, she meets John and his monkey and connects with insects near and far. While sleepwalking, Jennifer witnesses a murder and thus becomes a target of the film’s faceless psycho. Before Jennifer’s condition is diagnosed you may confuse Phenomena for a gothic rendition of Flashdance. The scenes where Argento shows her walking in her sleep are curiously inter-cut with shots of an imagined white corridor (for retro effect, the shot is scored to cheesy ‘80s synthesizer breakbeats). Bruckner’s fear of bees and Jennifer’s love for insects? Jennifer is a somnambulist. Is the animal the film’s killer? Is there an obvious logic to Mrs. A chimpanzee approaches the home of its master, John McGregor (Donald Pleasence). Everything and anything here is a potential clue to understanding Argento’s characters. Bruckner (Daria Nicolodi) hysterically overreacts to a bumblebee the young girl manages to capture with her hands. It’s a vicious moment in an unusually tranquil film that contemplates the existential connection between humans and insects and the rifts between nature and the material world.Īs Jennifer is driven to the Richard Wagner School, Mrs. For added effect, her head is ceremoniously thrown into the river below. She flees through a stairwell that leads through a waterfall and is ultimately stabbed and decapitated by the killer. The film’s opening set piece is legendary: a young schoolgirl misses her countryside bus, seeks refuge inside a mysterious home and butts heads with the film’s faceless, chained-up killer. #Argento phenomena series#Devoid of cultural markers, the town is the sleepy backdrop for a series of run-ins between insect-loving Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) and a cast of Argento usual suspects. The film’s “Swiss Transylvania” is virtually indistinguishable from any other Argento wonderland. (Argento calls Phenomena his favorite film.) The whole of Phenomena is less than the sum of its parts, but the parts are often terrifying and exhilarating. Creepers) displays what is both the filmmaker’s battiest and most spiritual landscape. ![]()
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