Jennifer’s Body (2009)

Film details

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DirectorKaryn Kusama
Year2009
CountryUSA
GenreComedy
TypeMovie
Runtime102m
CastMegan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, Sal Cortez, Ryan Levine, Juan Riedinger, Colin Askey, Chris Pratt, Juno Ruddell

Review

"The movie could have explored its intriguing ideas in even more depth, and it certainly doesn't reinvent the wheel. Jennifer's Body is still a better-than-average horror movie, and considerably more pointed too. Several moments are genuinely creepy. Other moments are darkly funny. Cody's script - under the director of Girlfight's Karyn Kusama, who brings a top-notch visual style - manages to combine those things into something that is a lot of wicked fun. The message: inside every adolescent girl is a figurative man-eater waiting to be unleashed. And inside every teen boy is a desire to be feasted on by the hottest girl in school. You can agree with that sentiment or not, but it may just define adolescent sexuality. If nothing else, it makes for a hell-raising good time at the movies." - Mike McGranaghan, The Aisle Seat

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,0008
HIGHEST#6622026
LOWEST#1,1522019
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data

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The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS RANKED5
HIGHEST#1842026
LOWEST#2532024
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

The list was not updated from 2016 to 2019 or in 2022. It expanded from a Top 250 to a Top 500 in 2021. Full rankings beyond the published lists are not available. Dotted segments and hollow points indicate editions in which the film was outside the published list; their exact ranks are unknown.

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