

Phenomena
Jennifer has a few million close friends. She's going to need them all!
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3.8M
- Box office
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- Language
- German
- daughter
- insect
- boarding school
- psychopath
- telepathy
- detective
- switzerland
- chimpanzee
- girls' boarding school
- murder
- serial killer
- teenage girl
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Italy
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR82-minute version2 Aug 1985
- PhysicalDVD15 Mar 1999
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1518 Apr 1986
FranceFR
- Theatrical12 Jun 1985
- Physical3 Nov 2010
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1817 Feb 1988
ItalyIT
- TheatricalVM1425 Jan 1985
JapanJP
- Theatrical22 Jun 1985
NetherlandsNL
- Physical16DVD20 Mar 2003
- Physical16Blu ray7 Mar 2011
PortugalPT
- Theatrical10 Feb 1986
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical185 Aug 1989
SpainES
- Theatrical2 Aug 1985
SwedenSE
- Physical15DVD release9 Mar 2005
- Physical15Blu-ray release (Dario Argento Collection)1 Apr 2019
Frequently asked questions
Phenomena was released on 25 January 1985.
Audience reviews
2- J6/10
John Chard
10/3/2014
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 horror legend Dario Argento, Phenomena is a mixed bag. Ignoring the butchered American version, which was titled Creepers, t…
- T8/10
talisencrw
5/9/2016
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 aficionado many great times in rewatches. Cinephiles often called Argento 'the Italian Alfred Hitchcock', and this would b…
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