![]() Now, why oh why did I “aka” this film “Creepers”? It’s good, you enjoy it, but you simply can’t figure out why and every time you tell someone why they need to see it, you end up sounding like a buffoon…….wait…did I just insult myself? It’s like trying to explain “Eraserhead”. Seriously, there is no way to logically explain this film to anyone. It’s crazy, convoluted, kind of all over the place, it’s got psychic bug powers, a crazy germanic power-bitch school-marm, Loomis in a wheelchair, a homicidal helper-monkey, a dwarf dressed as a little boy who’s also a mutant-monster-thing, a lake on fire, a pit of maggoty body-parts and fluids….everything that you can ask for to enjoy with your popcorn on a lonely Saturday night. Speaking of loony bins, that’s enough of the story for now. Only now, instead of fearing her, they just say she’s crazy and try to have her committed to the loony bin…. Nobody gets hurt, just scared, then Jenny passes out. She pulls a “Carrie” and summons a swarm of flies which covers the academy. This time, she is guided by a firefly to a maggot covered glove which she reports only to then be mocked and ridiculed as a freak by her fellow school-mates because of her “supposed” connection to insects (children can be so cruel). That very night, Sophie is murdered and once again, Jennifer sleepwalks. The next morning, she makes her way back to the school where she is almost immediately subjected to testing for her somnambulism. He tells her that some people possess a sort of telepathic connection with insects and it seems that in her excited state, that connection is exacerbated. He takes her in for the night, but notices that her presence has a strange effect on the insects in his lab. The chimp, named “Inga” leads Jen back to Dr. IMHO, the movie could have just started here and been fine. McGregor, Frau Brückner, the murders, and the chimp. At this point, I could never tell if she was just freaking out, or they were trying to rape her, but either way, they throw her out of the car in the middle of the woods where she tumbles down the side of the hill and is awakened by a rescue chimp.Īt this point, you can forget everything you’ve just watched except for Jennifer, Dr. The two boys driving the car, pick her up, put her in, and drive away. In shock, she wakes, falls, and stumbles out into the street where she’s hit by a car. ![]() She goes out onto the roof of the school where she witnesses one of the students being murdered. On her first night at the dorm, she begins to sleepwalk. Jennifer is the daughter of a famous actor who just so happens to be the crush of her room-mate, Sophie. Simple enough, right?Ĭue Jennifer Corvino (Connelly), escorted by Head Mistress Frau Brückner arriving at the Richard Wagner Academy for Girls. McGregor (Donald Pleasence) who looks at is and tells them the murder was about 8 months ago. The head is found, and brought, by police, to etymologist, Dr. She finds a house in the woods, the camera flips back and forth from her to some beastly thing chained to a wall and trying to break free, it does, she dies and is beheaded. A tourist is stranded at a beautiful roadside vista in the middle of the forest. It would seem that he blended this with his penchant for serial killers, animals, and the supernatural to give us what some, even the man himself consider his best film. Argento had heard stories of police using insects during murder investigations and got to writing this film. You’ll be hard pressed to find a “Top 10 Best Horror Movies” list without “Suspiria” listed.īack to the subject at hand. The suspense and atmosphere of his films are as uniquely recognizable as an Eddie Van Halen guitar solo, or a Bob Ross landscape. These days, Argento is lauded and loved as one of the true artistes of Horror cinema. With: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Patrick Bachau and Daria Nicolodi.Seriously, “Suspiria” made ballerinas scary decades before “Black Swan”. ![]() At RKO Warner's, Broadway at 47th Street and local theaters. The Cast CREEPERS, directed, written and produced by Dario Argento music by Iron Maiden, Goblin, Motorhead and Bill Wyman released by New Line Cinema. The best acting is by an expressive, resourceful chimpanzee - definitely the year's Best Supporting Primate. The plot toys with the idea that she can communicate with insects - allowing such special effects as a moving white dot that's supposed to be a firefly - then hauls out the knives, chains, skulls and maggots. Jennifer Connelly, as the teen-age heroine, was apparently chosen because she can hold a fly on her hand without flinching. It creaks along for its first hour or so, failing to work up any chills as a killer terrorizes a Swiss girls' school that has cuckoo clocks in every salon. The gore starts spattering in earnest too late to save ''Creepers,'' a dim-witted horror movie that opened yesterday at the RKO Warner and other theaters.
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