Jennifer's Body

Journalist Shannon Donnelly has written an interesting piece on the subject of feminism in modern horror films for The Daily Beast entitled "Revenge of the Scream Queen". It includes an interview with Jennifer's Body director Karyn Kusama and lightly touches on the issue of having a strong woman in front of, and behind, the camera of a horror film.

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Directed by Karyn Kusama
Written by Diablo Cody
Featuring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons
Review by Matthew Funk

Fans of Joss Whedon will delight—four years after FOX cancelled Firefly, they pay partial penance with this well-intentioned Buffy: The Vampire Slayer remake: Jennifer’s Body. Like Buffy, Jennifer’s Body uses wit and comic book violence to observe that high school social climbing is a close cousin to cannibalism. Unlike Buffy, it fails to deliver the dramatic goods or to show more sophistication than a bitchy teenager...

Megan Fox, star of Transformers 2 and Jennifer's Body, does not want to ever be nude, ever, because she thinks she's fat and also because she probably doesn't believe that her career is actually just based on men wanting to see her naked.

"Ugh, never!" said the actress to MTV. "That's the last thing I want to see -- what I look like having sex. It would take one shot of me not looking good and I would not be able to have sex ever again, because I would always just see myself looking like a hippo having sex."

"I can't ever imagine myself doing nudity in a film," she said. "It lives forever, especially now, with the Internet. I just can't. I just can't." One less reason to see Jennifer's Body, I suppose.

Check out this new promo featurette with mini-interviews with Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Karyn Kusama, and Diablo Cody for Jennifer's Body, the new horror movie coming out September 18th 2009, directed by Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux, unfortunately).

I don't know. Diablo uses the words 'Cinematic and Atmospheric', whilc Megan promises that this film will 'shock us'. Hm.

Unfortunately, from what I've seen so far, the movie seems predictable and shallow. Check out the new promo below and decide for yourself...

Actress Megan Fox (Transformers 2, Toe Thumb) recently did a Public Service Announcement-type ad for her upcoming horror flick Jennifer's Body, written by that girl Diablo Cody (Juno) and directed by Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux.)

What's awesome is that its supposed to be funny, but it isn't. This is because Megan Fox lacks all comedic timing. While she is arguably a very gorgeous woman, sometimes, regrettably, you've gotta just shut up and smile when you don't have a funny bone in your body. Check out the PSA below, which points out how horrible high school can be (I'm sure it was a nightmare for petite, brown pretty Megan...)

"The Prime of Miss Diablo Cody" is a new article in the August/September '09 edition of feminist/pop culture slave Bust Magazine by Jill Soloway.

Referred to in the article as 'beautiful and brainy' as well a 'genius', it is clear that Cody embodies the high level of pretentious modern 'makeup as a feminist statement' philosophy to which magazines like Bust cater. Focusing mainly on her new movie Jennifer's Body (rip off of a Hole song, did you say?) which is about women using their sexuality and lame neuvo-interweb slang to tear apart men's genitals (clearly only something a feminist would do), Soloway basically rehashes what large horror websites have already done: drool over her...

Jennifer's Body, directed by Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux, Girl Fight) opens the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival Sept 10-19th 2009.

Jennifer's Body tells the story of small-town high-school student Jennifer (Megan Fox) who is possessed by a hungry demon and transitions from being "high school evil"—gorgeous (and doesn't she know it), stuck up and ultra-attitudinal—to the real deal: evil/evil...