Successful beautiful girl, failed thriller

Tyrel 2022-02-16 08:02:48

Jennifer was a young and beautiful girl more than twenty years ago. To be honest, her face is a bit like Liu Yifei.
The success of "Phenomena" is that it does not stick to the usual horror film models such as zombies, viruses, and mutations. It adopts a mysterious and suspenseful approach, giving people a deep appeal.
But the plot of the story can't be flattered. There are a few things that are obviously deliberately created to exaggerate the atmosphere. For example, when the inspector was locked up by a female murderer, in order to save Jennifer, the inspector smashed his fingers, took off the handcuffs, and then fought with the female murderer. He thought he would kill her, but she didn’t expect that in the end she would actually kill her. He appeared in front of Jennifer with an iron plate! It's incredible and puzzling. From the opening section of the gorilla playing with knives, it can be seen that it was a foreshadowing for letting the gorilla kill the female devil in order to avenge the professor. Unfortunately, this foreshadowing was too unsuccessful and far-fetched.
In general, if Jennifer Connery is not included in this film, it is a thriller that has failed completely.

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Extended Reading
  • Christelle 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    #italymastersexhibition (supplement) nervous, scary, disgusting, and messy at the end (cut the head!! ah ah, I didn't expect it... The translation of Phenomena into "Myth" is completely God knows, it should be called "Unusual Situation" or "Stranger Things" or something ~

  • Adriel 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    [Da Guangming Cinema 4K restoration version] 1. Watching lead movies on the big screen and admiring the beauty of Jennifer Connelly in the teenage years is really one of the highest enjoyment for movie fans! 2. The style is very different from the gorgeous and stylized works of Aquido in the 1970s. They have become quite restrained and simple. The play and the motif are quite similar to the masterpiece [阴风阵阵] (but the story is more The charm is also more complete), such as: American girls go to boarding schools in German-speaking countries to investigate and track killers alone. The beginning of the film shows the murder of the girl who is out of the perspective of the heroine, the scene where the victim breaks through the glass, and the dark night is full of moon sky. Mirror, and the director’s fascination with maggots. 3. Aquido called this film his favorite work. 4. The subjective lens is brilliantly used, including the viewpoint lens of killer hunting, the surround and rotation lens when Jennifer is surrounded and mocked by classmates, and the subjective lens that simulates the compound eyes of insects (six windows). 5. Jennifer's performance that is almost calm and ecstatic almost the whole time, is both weird and alienated but also fits her mysterious superpowers. The black clothes, pure white dress and the scene of going ashore from the lake of dark night are all beautiful to the extreme. (8.5/10)

Phenomena quotes

  • [last lines]

    Frau Brückner: [attempts to kill Jennifer with a slide] He was diseased; but he was my son! And you have... Why didn't I kill you before? I killed that no-good inspector and your professor friend, to protect him! And now... I'm gonna KILL YOU TO AVENGE HIM! Why don't you call your INSECTS! GO ON! CALL! CALL!

    [Inga then attacks Frau and slashes her to death]