![]() Scenes cut back and forth with no logic whatsoever and the editing of the scenes themselves is completely off. You have to roll with a LOT of punches to get behind a story like that, but the movie is jarringly put together, so clearly cut down to the bone in the editing room that characters seem to enter and exit the narrative at complete random. Her powers will put her on the path of tracking down the killer with the help of Scottish etymologist Professor John McGregor (Donald Pleasance) and his pet chimpanzee Inga (Tanga). Jennifer has an odd quirk of her own though, an ability to communicate telepathically with insects. She's arrived in town at a bad time though, as girls her age are going missing, rumored to be murdered by a lunatic. The story (or what little there is) involves an American girl named Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly) going to a Swiss boarding school. Creepers is not, and it's what I have to work with. I'm here to talk about an unfortunate re-edit of one of his movies, and maybe his 116 minute or 110 minute versions of this film are good. I'm not here to debate Argento's place in the horror canon though. His most legendary works have left a permanent mark on the entire horror genre, Deep Red and Suspiria in particular. I literally don't know what scenes were lost since I've never seen the actual film, but I'm not sure it would be enough to save this movie, one of the later entries of the legendary career of Dario Argento.ĭario Argento is one of the most famous names to ever be associated with Italian horror, right up there with the likes of Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci, just to name a few. But the American theater re-edit, titled Creepers, was cut down to 83 minutes. Phenomena ran for 116 minutes in its longest version, but did have a slightly cut down version at 110 minutes, not too severe of a loss in footage. That information is crucial to understanding the countless failings of Creepers, a horror film that feels like it's missing about a quarter of its own story. The movie I saw was called Creepers, the American version of the Italian horror film Phenomena. ![]() I think I need to see Phenomena at some point, just to compare and contrast.
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