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Phenomena (1985)

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4.8854 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Assemble your spear and follow the fly in the box because we're discussing Dario Argento's 1985 giallo fairytale, Phenomena.

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0:00.0

You have to control

0:02.0

You have to control yourself! And welcome back to horror queers. We're talking, I walk in my sleep. I must wake up. We're talking, just do it, Morris. I don't want to end up murdered. And we're talking 12 movies for the price of one, and I'm not mad about it.

0:40.3

And I'm Joe.

0:41.2

And I'm Trace.

0:42.2

And we're talking, I'm a foreigner and I'm lost.

0:47.3

Are you a foreigner, teen?

0:50.0

Everyone, we are discussing Dario Argento's phenomena.

0:53.4

His ninth directorial effort.

0:56.0

And I got to say, this movie's bunkers, and I kind of loved it.

1:01.3

Yes, that last piece of my intro is not a quote.

1:05.0

That is my quote from me, because we are just talking about this offline.

1:09.2

I feel like I knew a couple of things about

1:11.3

this movie, but whenever people talk about this film, they don't say that it is bat-shit

1:16.2

fun. And honestly, I feel misinformed. Like, I would have watched way earlier if I hadn't

1:21.9

known what kind of movie it was. Yeah, I mean, we've talked a lot about kind of my, not particularly

1:26.3

a version, but like I don't really gravitate towards Italian horror films. And honestly, if I saw more films like this, I'd be eating them all up because I don't even think I knew this was necessarily a Giala film. I really just knew it was Jennifer Connolly talks telepath to get bugs. I didn't even have Donald Pleasant with this movie.

1:43.2

I knew he was in it because I knew that he had a relationship with a chimp. And I would say,

1:49.7

just because I don't want anyone to start angrily composing some kind of skeet, I don't think

1:54.6

that this is considered a conventional GALO film. It definitely has aspects of it, particularly

1:59.6

in this serial killer of teen girls. But there's too many other things going on in here. I'm glad that you said that because when I tweeted, or I'm sorry, skeeted, whatever the fuck on Blue Sky is. I hate it. I don't even know why I said it. I hated myself immediately. But I post, I posted on social media that I was watching this and And someone, they referred to it as a Gialo, but then they were like, oh, well, I know some people quibble with it.

2:20.5

And then someone replied it was like, no, it's totally a Gialo film.

2:22.9

And so it, whatever, man, we're going to call it a Gialo.

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