Phenomena is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Dario Argento. An edited version of the film was released in the United States under the title Creepers. Jennifer Connelly stars as a young girl who arrives at an eerie Swiss boarding school where the students are being butchered by a serial killer. With the help of a wheelchair-using entomologist , she discovers she has special psychic powers, and uses them to pursue the killer. A lost tourist, Vera Brandt , is chased by an unseen assailant and beheaded in the Swiss countryside. Sometime later, her head is taken to forensic entomologist... John McGregor by Inspector Rudolf Geiger and his assistant, Kurt . McGregor estimates the time of death as eight months prior. Jennifer Corvino , insect-loving daughter of a movie star, arrives at the Swiss Richard Wagner Academy for Girls, chaperoned by Frau Brückner , who places her with roommate Sophie . While sleepwalking through the academy and out onto the roof, Jennifer witnesses a student being murdered.
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| Release date: | January 31, 1985 |
| Directed by: | Dario Argento |
| Runtime: | 116 Minutes |
| Producer: | Dario Argento |
| Editor: | Franco Fraticelli |
| Music by: | Simon Boswell, Goblin |
| Cinematography: | Romano Albani |
| Screenplay by: | Franco Ferrini, Dario Argento |
| Estimated budget: | $3,800,000 |
| Genre: | Fantasy |