Aenigma (1987)

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1987 Wide

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After her snobby schoolmates accidentally send her into a coma, poor little Kathy has only one way to get even--with her mind! Eva, another schoolgirl, falls under the spell of Kathy's vengeful psyche, which is capable of horrible destruction using telekinesis and even killer snails to do her bidding. Soon the hallways at St. Mary's School are filled with screaming, and there's no way to escape. In the tradition of Carrie, this psychic shocker from legendary Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci,

Unrated, 1 hr. 25 min.

Horror, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Lucio Fulci

Written By: Lucio Fulci, Giorgio Mariuzzo

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1987 Wide

On DVD: Sep 4, 2001

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If you took the concept of Carrie, married it to the circumstances of Patrick, ladled in copious amounts of Dario Argento's Suspiria... you'd have Aenigma in a nutty, infectious shell.

October 27, 2007 Full Review Source: PopMatters

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Bill Gibron

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an interesting attempt by Fulci to dabble in another successful style of genre horror movie

November 11, 2002 Full Review Source: Sex Gore Mutants

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Alan Simpson

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Supernatural revenge movie which is what would be created if the movies Carrie and Patrick could biologically conceive a child. It's quite cheesy and silly at times and Lucio Fulci restrains the use of the gore in this one, but it's still decent fun overall.

January 9, 2011

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After Kathy's classmates play a prank on her which sends her into a coma poor Kathy has only one way to get back at them and thats with her mind she assumes control over the body of the new girl in school Eva and exacts her revenge and starts killing off the students one by one. One of Fulci's more weirder movies is a

November 8, 2008