Jennifer’s
Body
2009
Director- Karyn Kusama
Cast- Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, J. K.
Simmons, Chris Pratt
They go
to the town’s one bar to see a band. Jennifer is hoping to hook up with group’s
lead singer. As it turns out, the band members are all Satanists and they
kidnap Jennifer for use as a ritual sacrifice. Only one problem: they believe
Jennifer is a virgin and she’s anything but. Screwing up on this vital
ingredient means they’re ritual goes awry.
Jennifer
becomes a succubus who starts seducing her way through the town’s boy
population, and eating them. Needy figures out what’s happening but predictably
everyone else is unaware, so it’s up to her to confront her one time bestie
turned cannibal temptress.
Jennifer’s Body is not a straight
forward fright film. It’s part horror part satire. It makes fun of the
shallowness of youth and the general lack of awareness of adults. While not as
cutting or clever as, say, Heathers, it
does successfully combine humor with horror.
Megan Fox is one of those
people like Ryan Reynolds . They’re so attractive it’s hard to take them
seriously. Or another way of putting it, it’s hard to get around how attractive
they are. Jennifer’s Body, though, is
the perfect vehicle for her. Rather than trying to make her hotness an added
attraction like in Transformers, it is the centerpiece. Who could be a more convincing succubus than
a girl that was internationally labeled as a sex symbol?
That’s not to say that Fox
gets by on her looks. She convincingly sells the act, alternating between sexy,
evil, and funny. It’s too bad Megan hasn’t done more horror movies. I know they
don’t pay the kind of money of Transformers, but she would make a hell of a scream queen.
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