Ænigma

Ænigma (1987)

They made a clown out of Kathy once too often!

The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls' boarding school in order to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.

Date of release
1987-12-30
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (111)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Horror
Director
Lucio Fulci

Casting

Interesting facts

Ænigma is a 1987 horror film directed by Lucio Fulci and was produced by Boro Banjac, Walter Brandi and Ettore Spanuolo. The plot evolves around supernatural and paranormal phenomena in relation to violent deaths occurring in an American college perpetrated by a newcomer who is possessed by a serial killer's ghost.

Production

The story and screenplay of the film were written by Giorgio Mariuzzo and director Lucio Fulci. Fulci acknowledged the influence of Carrie when making the film, declaring it "one of my best films of recent years" and that it was "a sort of Carrie in which there are two characters".

Lara Naszinski was cast as Eva in the film after Ettore Spanuolo's production company contacted her.

Aenigma was shot on location in Sarajevo. Some sources state that the film had location work done in Massachusetts, but the lead actors insisted that everything was shot in Sarajevo.

For the Italian film journal "Nocturno", cinematographer Luigi Ciccarese stated that Fulci was a maestro, who sometimes did things that at first did not seem to make sense - until one saw the results. Ciccarese further remembered that it was Fulci who came up with all the gimmicks and effects, and that he himself would have never thought of shooting a scene with the snails.

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