Our movie starts with a college student putting on far too much eye shadow to go out on a date with the man of her dreams; too bad the whole thing is a setup. The mean kids have surrounded the parked car and are somehow listening to the girl babble on about how grateful she is that the man noticed her (always a turn on.) Once the girl figures out she’s the butt of a very cruel joke she jumps out of the car and takes off running. The kids give chase and she winds up being hit by a car and put into a coma. While comatose she manages to slip herself into the body of a new girl named Eva in order to make out with lots of guys. Oh and get her revenge by killing lots of people of course.

In real life when you treat people like crap you get voted Prom Queen.

In a horror movie when you treat people like crap you die a horrible painful bloody death. No wonder I like movies so much.

This movie is definitely not one of Fulci’s finest. Lots of things make little sense here. I can forgive a lot of WTF’s in Italian horror but not this many; not practically the entire film. There were some really good moments but a lot of it was really boring as well. The gore was so-so, nothing special. One scene showing a girl finding a bunch of her dead friends is clearly the same headless body shown over and over. This movie also has the infamous “death by snails” scene. Please indulge me while I type that again. Death…by…..snails. Ahhhhh thanks. How many times in ones life can you write that line?

In one of the most unintentionally funny moments ever, a soon to be dead girl has a vision of the coma girl in a poster of Tom Cruise and then falls out a window. Ha ha, Maverick told me to kill myself!

Fulci fans should see this movie but I wouldn’t recommend buying it.

I give this movie 5 out of 10 soundtracks with organ music. More movies should have organ music.

Aenigma is a middle of the road Fulci flick. It is about a misfit girl that gets put in a coma when a cruel prank goes horribly wrong. I’m not sure how or why it happened, but she has the ability through possession, telekinesis, and illusion to exact terrible Fulci-style revenge on all her conspirators, not unlike the movie Carrie. This is all happening from the confines of her death bed mind you. This, my friends, is the exact recipe for girlschool murder mayhem with a side order of Italian horror nonsense! Snails are extra.

This movie was essentially unoriginal and off the wall, but I was entertained by it. It had crazy ass dialogue, but the acting was pretty good nonetheless. It also possesses one of the cheesiest beginnings in horror movie history, but I’ll be damned if I wasn’t humming that horrible 80’s Euro easy listening tune well after the credits rolled. I really wasn’t bothered by the whole crazy ass godlike powers that this catatonic woman had either. I guess I was already resigned to the fact that something completely nonsensical probably was going to happen anyway, which is par for the course in this subgenre. What did bother me though was the reckless abandon this supposed “victim” had (see my Scarecrow review for a similar notion). As a victim herself, she had no problem possessing this other girl and totally wrecking her life just so she could exact revenge. This annoys me and I wanted to see her die for it. I wanted her mother to die because she was meddlesome and weird. I wanted all the prank conspirators to die too for being unusually cruel. Wanting to see everybody die in a Fulci flick is a good thing, because you usually get your wish.

The movie was well crafted and it flowed pretty good. I don’t recall any substantial nudity, despite the fact that this is an Italian horror flick about a girlschool, but the gore flowed pretty good. Not great, but pretty good. For the record, I could have done without the snail scenes. I know enough about Fulci flicks to know that those were real snails also and that that poor actress was more than likely really covered in all of them. Gotta give props for going the extra mile.

I keep coming up with “pretty good” in my mind to describe this movie. Nothing more, nothing less. I can’t recommend this film to everybody, but if you are a fan of the director, or the subgenre of 80’s Italian horror, you should be all right. I give it 6.5 out of 10 curtains that I could have swore somebody was going to jump out from behind