Phenomena

Ditching his four flies for an entire army of insects, this wild fusion of psychics and psychos saw Argento turn it up to eleven.

Jennifer, a bug-whispering American teen, is sent to a Swiss boarding school. Upon discovering that young women in the area are being murdered, she teams up with an etymologist and a chimpanzee (yep, a chimpanzee…) to catch the killer. Having genre-hopped between murder mysteries and occult shockers for his past few films, Phenomena bridged the gap between Argento’s two distinct cinematic worlds, resulting in a fully-fledged supernatural giallo that remains his most bizarre and utterly unhinged piece of work. This presentation is in Italian language with English subtitles.