Jennifer's Body (2009) poster
2009 · horror · comedy · supernatural · music

Jennifer's Body

Directed by Karyn Kusama1h 47m2009
ElsewhereIMDb5.6172kRT47%Metacritic47
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • inventive
Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, extreme horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · Jennifer's Body (2009) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive horror · comedy · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want sardonic teen horror about female rage, friendship, and pop-culture bite.

ends bittersweetit stays with yougrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgoresexual violencegraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if gory demon-cheerleader violence or mean-girl cruelty turns you off.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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