TERROR HOTTIES

It’s hard to believe, but Anchor Bay seems to have found another good salvage title with Dario Argento’s Phenomenon. Featuring surprising terror hottie Jennifer Connelly in one of her earliest roles, she stars as an outcast student at a Swiss boarding school. But before you start feeling too badly for Jennifer, she’s just discovered that she’s got the telepathic power to control insects.

Oh, and she’s also just stumbled on a bloody trail of a razor-wielding psychopath stalking the school’s grounds. Now it’s up to Bug Girl and a kindly professor to put the gift of bug mind control to work and stop the psychopath’s rampages once and for all.

Which is pretty much Dario Argento’s career in a nutshell. Not bad, but frankly, it’s been done and better elsewhere. Come on–bug mind control. Seriously. Sounds like one of the lesser mutant powers from X-Men, right alongside Kitty Pryde and her ludicrous “phasing” ability and Jubilee’s ridiculous fireworks.

But still–Anchor Bay treats its relics right, so look forward to a well-preserved look at some eighties horror featuring a young terror hottie in the making.