As I found an old Japanese video game called 'Clock Tower' I found myself thinking this ought to have been a horror film in the first place. A strong female lead, who didn't look all that bad herself... Then when looking for things it might have referenced, I found this. Coincidentally, in both the main character was called Jennifer, and in both the face was just about the same. In both the main character also had to deal with a vicious killer.
Well, enter Phenomena. We deal with Jennifer, a foreign student who just arrived at a Swiss boarding school because her father had to work somewhere else.
She finds it difficult to be accepted in school, main reason being that she seems so odd to other people, and she reveals to us one extraordinary gift; she has the power to control the insect.
Flesh flies, beetles, larvae; and she shares this gift with a scientist played by Donald Pleasence, called John McGregor. As he has searched for an elusive killer, he had also searched corpses for their insects, so that they might help him to determine when those who were killed had in fact died.
Nobody knows who this killer is, only that he kills within the neighbourhood; but maybe Jennifer's gift could just help to turn the tide in their favour, before all Hell breaks loose.
I would highly advise not to try too hard to make sense of it all; just sit back and enjoy.
If you enjoy '80s heavy metal and bands like Goblin and Iron Maiden, that's an added plus.
Well, enter Phenomena. We deal with Jennifer, a foreign student who just arrived at a Swiss boarding school because her father had to work somewhere else.
She finds it difficult to be accepted in school, main reason being that she seems so odd to other people, and she reveals to us one extraordinary gift; she has the power to control the insect.
Flesh flies, beetles, larvae; and she shares this gift with a scientist played by Donald Pleasence, called John McGregor. As he has searched for an elusive killer, he had also searched corpses for their insects, so that they might help him to determine when those who were killed had in fact died.
Nobody knows who this killer is, only that he kills within the neighbourhood; but maybe Jennifer's gift could just help to turn the tide in their favour, before all Hell breaks loose.
I would highly advise not to try too hard to make sense of it all; just sit back and enjoy.
If you enjoy '80s heavy metal and bands like Goblin and Iron Maiden, that's an added plus.