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Phenomena

Jennifer has a few million close friends. She's going to need them all!

6.8(956)19851h 55m5

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

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

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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

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  • J

    John Chard

    10/3/2014

    6/10

    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…

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    talisencrw

    5/9/2016

    8/10

    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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