Part of Midnight Movies and January Giallo, co-presented by Cinematic Void
Sat, Jan 25 at Midnight: Introduction from Jason Shawhan, senior film critic for the Nashville Scene | BUY TICKETS
There’s something in the wind that tears through the mountain towns of ‘Swiss Transylvania.’ The visionary scientist. The unspeakable secret. The girls’ school. The body count. Into all this comes Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly, in her first starring role) — daughter of a famous actor, an inquisitive learner, and possessed of a secret — that she can communicate with and command the insect world. And she will need her millions of friends to help when the sights of a murderer are set upon her. This delirious genre romp is Dario Argento taking narrative strains from previous triumphs and fashioning something weirder, wilder and unbound by taste — a fairy tale written in blood and beetles. With Daria Nicolodi and Donald Pleasence — and music by Simon Boswell, Iron Maiden, Mötörhead and former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman.
About Cinematic Void and January Giallo:
The LA-based screening series masterminded by James Branscome expanded their January Giallo programming in 2022 to co-present events with arthouse theaters around the country that highlight and celebrate classics and deep-cuts from the beloved cult genre.
“PHENOMENA’s paranormal obsessions are unlike anything you’ve ever seen—a retro-mystical tableaux of pulsating synthesizers and flying insects ready to do the bidding of their human master.” —Ed Gonzalez, Slant “Dario Argento’s ability to craft captivating aesthetics and arresting visuals will be studied and lauded by genre fans until the end of time…” —Anthony Arrigo, Dread Central “Rife with memorable imagery, it includes a sequence that rivals Poltergeist’s pool of skeletons, a monstrous youth reminiscent of Don’t Look Now, vicious animal attacks, underwater photography, blazing fire, and a shocking decapitation.” —Alex DiVincenzo, Bloody Disgusting
