JENNIFER’S BODY
Genre
Horror, Comedy
Language
VOA
Duration
102
Rating
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In the small town of Devil’s Kettle (MN), Jennifer (Megan Fox) and Needy (Amanda Seyfried) are unlikely best friends. Then Jennifer is murdered in a Satanic ritual by a rock band whose members hope that sacrificing her will give them the big break they need. But as a crucial flaw in the ceremony comes to light, Jennifer is now posessed by a hungry demonic spirit bent on murder. Can Needy stop her best friend's killing rampage?
‘’The vision in Jennifer’s Body of the danger, insult, dismissal, and abuse awaiting young women—and the desperate, self-destructive efforts to confront it—anticipates the immense power of such films as Promising Young Woman. It also anticipates that film’s aesthetic blind spots. Both films are ultimately more gratifying as illustrations of ideas than as experiences. In Jennifer’s Body, the pessimistic addendum of a metaphysical element—suggesting no way out except through supernatural intervention, whether divine or satanic—is conceptually grand but directorially slight. The film’s furious and empathetic foundation, tethered to its supernatural superstructure, made it a potential successor to Twin Peaks. Its impulses and implications, if not its relatively incomplete and flip world-building, are worthy of the comparison." (THE NEW YORKER)
Directed by
Karyn Kusama
Actors
Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody
Country
United States
Version
Original English Version
Release year
2009
Original title
Jennifer's Body