I wonder why so may people hate this movie so much, especially horror-fans. All I hear are rants and complaints about how terrible it was. Rants about how it wasn't bloody enough or scary enough, or how it wasn't funny enough, or even how it lacked a nude Megan Fox (I know, right?). But what I thought from the start was, what did you people expect? Psycho? A major milestone in horror or something? With a title like 'Jennifer's Body' and a plot surrounding a hot high school girl hosting a man-eating demonic spirit (or whatever she was), you shouldn't expect nothing more than a modern teen B-movie.
That's precisely what it is. Although, thankfully, it does not follow along the 'typical' teen horror movie path. It's got plenty of sappy dialogue (I won't even get into the whole Diablo Cody conversation) that you'd expect to hear in a high school in this day and age. It has your average paper thin teen characters, like a Friday the 13th film you'll find all the stereotypes are here. But besides that it's actually pretty gory in some parts. Megan Fox looks as good as always (her acting is the same, too). It's just what I expected, and I found myself very pleased with the end results.
Go back and re-watch a movie like 'Night of the Creeps' or 'Fright Night' and see how much of a trip back to the 80's they were. How enjoyable they are to watch, some cheesy horror/comedies that you'll just keep on going back to year after year to watch. Not to confuse you into thinking Jennifer's Body is anywhere near as good as those two films, but it'll surly leave the same impression when you look back on it in twenty-odd years and fondly remember being a decent representation of it's times.This isn't a bad film, nor does achieve cult-classic status.
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