Jennifer's Body (2009) on Netflix
R20091h 42mComedyFantasyHorror
Jennifer Check, a popular color guard flag spinner, dominates her studious best friend Needy Lesnicki. When a fire breaks out at a dive bar, Jennifer departs with the band Low Shoulder.
- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb5.6/10178,083 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes46%
Trailer
Plot summary
Needy Lesnicki is a studious teenager in Devil's Kettle, Minnesota. Jennifer Check, a popular color guard flag spinner, has been her best friend since childhood and often dominates her. One night Jennifer brings Needy to a bar to hear the band Low Shoulder. A fire breaks out and several people die. Jennifer goes with the band. She then turns up at Needy's house drenched in blood, vomits a dark fluid and nearly bites Needy's neck before pulling away.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jennifer's Body (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Cody asked to be set on fire, calling it "me trying to conquer a fear", but was refused a full burn for insurance purposes; she argued that Burt Reynolds had done it once, "but apparently he got really hurt, so they would not let me".
- According to Cody the film was marketed "all wrong": she had argued with executives who wanted "to market this to boys who like Megan Fox", telling them it was a movie for girls too, an audience they did not attempt to reach.
- Movieline's S.T. VanAirsdale called the opening one of "the stinkiest high-profile openings in recent memory" and gave five reasons for the film's underperformance; the first was the distributor, as Fox Atomic had the film in the can by the time the studio shut the genre wing down.
- For the vomit scene, where Jennifer has just arrived at Needy's house after being murdered and inhabited by a demon, Fox said the liquid she was given to spit out "was actually ... chocolate syrup initially".
- Seyfried said that neither she nor Fox wanted to do the kiss, feeling it was just for promotional purposes, and she agreed with Fox that she was uneasy about acting out the scene: "It was my first time doing a real kissing scene with a woman."
- In 2018, Constance Grady reported in Vox that a new critical consensus was forming that appreciated the film as a "forgotten feminist classic".
