![]() 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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