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1. Phenomena 1985 jennifer connelly phenomena movie#
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Jennifer Corvino (a young Jennifer Connelly, one year before her star-making role in Labyrinth), the fourteen-year-old daughter of a famous American actor, has been sent to a boarding school in Switzerland while her father spends the next year shooting on location in a remote part of the Philippines. Running throughout the film is an undercurrent of terror, which is paired with distinctly beautiful imagery to create a film experience that is more haunting than inquisitive.

Phenomena 1985 jennifer connelly phenomena movie#

Phenomena is not a giallo picture in the way that many of Argento’s works definitively are or even Suspiria arguably is although there is a mystery at its core, the crimes cannot be solved by the audience, making this much more of a slasher movie than other entries in the director’s canon, which may have contained elements of the slasher genre but were narratively focused on investigation. These mysteries were published with dust jackets featuring a yellow color scheme “giallo” is Italian for yellow, and over time the word came to mean any mystery or detective story, but especially those which included horror or thriller elements. When the works of English-language mystery novelists like Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Ellery Queen, and my man Ed McBain were first translated into Italian, they were exclusively published by Mondadori, the largest publishing company in Italy. It occurs to me that I haven’t defined what “giallo” actually means in any of my reviews. The main character is not an artist, and the resolution of the mystery, while unforeseeable, doesn’t feel like a cheat.

Phenomena 1985 jennifer connelly phenomena series#

The main character and the detective investigating the series of crimes don’t meet until they both wind up in the killer’s dungeon in the final act. There are no attempts to recall and decipher a misunderstood or misremembered clue. There are some superficial similarities to Suspiria, given the setting and the protagonist, but Phenomena is undoubtedly its own movie, and a departure from Argento’s other movies in that it contains very few of his common elements. As it turns out, it’s even more beautiful than I remember, and still holds its place as not only my favorite Argento, but as one of my favorite movies period, regardless of genre. I hadn’t seen it in over five years, and I was concerned that my recollection of it as a pitch-perfect film would be ruined upon revisitation. Since beginning this journey, I’ve cited Phenomena as my favorite Dario Argento movie in several reviews, and as its time in the spotlight grew nearer, I felt some trepidation about whether or not it would live up to my memories. I approached this movie with ambiguous feelings.