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Jennifer's Body
Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.
2009 · Directed by Karyn Kusama · 107 min · Horror · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
She's evil... and not just high school evil.
Plot
Anita "Needy" Lesnicki, once an insecure and studious teenager living in the small town of Devil's Kettle, Minnesota, has become a violent asylum inmate who narrates the story as a flashback while in solitary confinement.
Since childhood, Needy has been best friends with Jennifer Check, a popular and beautiful high school color guard flag spinner, despite the two having little in common. Jennifer often mistreats and dominates Needy, who is too in awe of her to stand up for herself. One night, Jennifer takes Needy to a local dive bar to attend a concert by the indie rock band Low Shoulder. A fire engulfs the bar, killing several people. Jennifer, in shock from the fire, leaves with the band even though Needy tells her not to. Later that evening, she appears in Needy's kitchen, covered in blood, and attempts to eat a rotisserie chicken. She immediately vomits a trail of black fluid and almost bites Needy's neck but retreats and leaves.
The next morning at school, Jennifer appears fine and dismisses Needy's concerns, appearing apathetic to the fire tragedy. She seduces Jonas, the school's football captain and lures him into the woods, where she disembowels and cannibalizes him. Meanwhile, Low Shoulder gains popularity due to their falsely rumored heroism during the fire and earns a cult following status.
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Crew
- Written by: Diablo Cody
- Cinematography: M. David Mullen
- Edited by: Plummy Tucker
- Music: Stephen Barton, Theodore Shapiro
- Production design: Arvinder Greywal
- Produced by: Daniel Dubiecki, Mason Novick, Jason Reitman, Brad Van Arragon
Cast
- Megan Fox as Jennifer
- Amanda Seyfried as Needy
- Johnny Simmons as Chip
- Adam Brody as Nikolai
- Sal Cortez as Chas
- Ryan Levine as Mick
- Juan Riedinger as Dirk
- Colin Askey as Keyboardist
- Chris Pratt as Roman Duda
- Juno Rinaldi as Officer Warzak
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Spanish, English
- Studios: Fox Atomic, Dubiecki/Novick/Reitman Productions, Dune Entertainment
- Budget: $16,000,000
- Box office: $31,556,061
- Themes: high school, minnesota, possession, slumber party, gore, sexual murder, teenage girl, demon, rock band, succubus
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