![]() In fact, I almost prefer this version as it concentrates the film’s mayhem into a leaner framework. ![]() Also on the disc is my beloved Creepers cut, remastered in 1080p and looking just as good as the fuller International versions. ![]() Eventually it did show up domestically via Anchor Bay as the full, 110-minute cut and that, of course, became the go-to version for every hardcore and newly-minted Argento nut.Īnd now, so many years later, Synapse Films has made Phenomena available on Blu-ray, a stunning presentation that includes the full 110-minute cut of Phenomena but also a wild 116-minute cut, assembled flawlessly from English and Italian prints and featuring extended dialogue passages and extra scenes that, while not adding much to the texture of the picture, are fantastic bonuses for those of us who worship the movie and know every inch of it. version of his 1985 film Phenomena but, this being more than a decade before the dawn of DVD and companies like Anchor Bay tracking uncut, affordable and pristine prints of European titles for home video, I pretty much gave up the hope of ever seeing the full version. Later, I would find out that Creepers was an edited U.S. This would mark the first Argento film I’d see. I knew the name of its director, Dario Argento, from casual glances at older FANGORIA magazines and in a film reference book I had that had a still from his 1977 landmark style opera Suspiria. Creepers was something else entirely…įor 83 minutes I sat hypnotized on that couch by what was one of the most delirious things I’ve ever seen, ever. His jam was David Cronenberg’s 1975 masterpiece Shivers. I became obsessed by the idea of this film and, when I saw the listing in the TV guide citing Creepers, my memory jolted and I thought this was the movie my pop had pimped on me. Now, when I was REALLY little, my dad told me he saw this movie about a parasite that looked like a cross between a penis and turd that crawled into people’s mouths and drove them insane. It just so happened that the flick in question was something called Creepers. When I was a kid, I got up early - as I always did - to pour myself a bowl of whatever garbage cereal I was grooving on at the time, and settle in to watch whatever movie was playing on Canadian Pay-TV channel First Choice. Phenomena: Dario Argento’s manic 1985 masterpiece comes to Blu-ray from Synapse Films in three different cuts
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