He also mentions that “when it blows, there are those who say it causes madness.” Could this wind have led to the craziness exhibited by Frau Brückner and her son? Or is she just trying to cover up a moment of indiscretion by her offspring? Some people may be familiar with a similar wind in Southern California called the Santa Ana, which blows hot and dry off the desert out towards the ocean. McGregor mentions it several times, calling it the föhn, a warm dry wind that sweeps down from the Alps. It’s not just there for the atmospheric look, but also part of the plot. There’s also a constant strong wind blowing the trees and other objects around. The cinematography by Romano Albani is beautiful, capturing alpine mountains in the backgrounds of some of the shots.
The look of the film is something else that stands out. McGregor, who is confined to a wheelchair. It’s an interesting plot device, even if she doesn’t find what she’s looking for initially. But coupled with the fact that Jennifer is able to understand the insects, they do end up leading her to the killer’s original house.
JENNIFER CONNELLY PHENOMENA SERIAL
It seems a little reminiscent of the way the serial killer was tracked in The Silence of The Lambs. The use of forensic entomology is also a strange choice for this film. In most of these films the powers of the hero allow them to thwart the villain/killer even when they may not completely understand their own powers, much as Jennifer does here. There are only a few I can think of including both the protagonist and antagonist of Scanners, Danny Torrence in The Shining, and Christopher Walken’s character in The Dead Zone. It’s also rare for the protagonists of horror films to have powers of some kind. It’s a very strange aspect to attach to a serial killer film. In the 1977 film, Suzy is just an average girl, while here Jennifer has some sort of telepathic bond with the insects around her. While Phenomena has some similarities to Argento’s previous film Suspiria, an American girl in European school, weird killings, and atmospheric moments, they are really two different films. “ It’s perfectly normal for insects to be slightly telepathic.” – Prof. But when the killer comes for Jennifer she is stopped by Inga who attacks Brückner with a straight razor saving Jennifer’s life. He is quickly decapitated by Brückner who is not as dead as she seemed. She swims to safety and is surprised to see Morris coming to rescue her. Jennifer calls down thousands of flies that eat his flesh off and he falls into the water dead, but her boat catches on fire. Jennifer escapes but is chased by the frau’s mutant son onto a boat on the lake. The inspector, who had come upon his own investigations of the frau, escapes from the chains and strangles Brückner. She escapes through an underground tunnel where she finds Inspector Geiger chained up. Jennifer vomits it up when she realizes that Brückner is trying to kill her. The frau mentions she has a young son but not to worry, and gives Jennifer a sleeping pill which turns out to be poison. She is met by Frau Brückner, who spoke with Morris by telephone, in a bank and is taken back to the woman’s house to wait for her flight the next morning. Jennifer calls her father’s agent Morris (Mario Donatone) in Los Angeles to get her home, and then leaves the school fearing for her life. She uses her powers to draw thousands of flies onto the school as a warning to the others. Other girls tease the newcomer because of a shared private letter where she admits she can talk with insects. Jennifer sleepwalks around the same time and is led to a maggot infested glove by a firefly. On returning to her dorm, Sophie is chased and killed by the killer, presumably because she was wearing Jennifer’s coat. Sophie is told by the headmistress (Dalila Di Lazzaro) to keep an eye on Jennifer, but instead heads out on the grounds to meet her boyfriend after lights out. The Professor provides her a coat and they discuss his many insects, which she is not afraid of. She doesn’t remember much and is wearing only her nightgown.
McGregor’s house where Inga helps her inside.
Jennifer sleepwalks one night into the woods and over to Prof. Jennifer becomes roommates with Sophie (Federica Mastroianni), a rebellious teen. She is picked up and delivered by Frau Brückner (Daria Nicolodi), an assistant at the school. Teenager Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) arrives in the country to attend an all-girls boarding school.
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