You can find vastly differing opinions elsewhere, but this essay is about mine. Let me say it here in black-and-white without quotation marks: I sincerely, absolutely believe that PHENOMENA is a brilliant horror film. It makes me smile just to think about this movie, but it makes me smile weirdly, because the movie is insane. Stop me on the street sometime, I’ll bend your ear. I could literally talk about this movie all day. PHENOMENA hasn’t been in my life as long as some of my other favorite movies, but it’s rapidly skyrocketing up that stratosphere into rarified air. It’s also a Hitchcockian wrong-man thriller starring an ape! Let me also add that for much of the movie, you can’t be sure that the chimpanzee isn’t the murderer. Do you know what that means? Take a moment if you need to absorb that information slowly. Jennifer teams up with the unlikely trio of a local bug expert (played by Donald Pleasence, of course), his chimpanzee lab assistant Inga, and a flesh fly in a box, in order to solve the murders. Let me try recapping it and you can decide for yourself:Ī teenage girl (Jennifer Connelly) who has the ability to commune with insects arrives at a Swiss boarding school, where a diminutive murderer has been killing girls at night. Every time I try to describe the movie to a regular human person who has never heard of it before (an unfortunately high number of human persons, in this country and state at least), they decide that I am making it up, and also that I am insane. It’s the kind of horror movie you wish for.
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