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Jennifer's Body (2009)

17 September 2009 6:24 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

Directed by Karyn Kusama

Written by Diablo Cody

Featuring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons

Review by Matthew Funk

Fans of Joss Whedon will delight—four years after Fox cancelled Firefly, they pay partial penance with this well-intentioned Buffy: The Vampire Slayer remake: Jennifer’s Body. Like Buffy, Jennifer’s Body uses wit and comic book violence to observe that high school social climbing is a close cousin to cannibalism. Unlike Buffy, it fails to deliver the dramatic goods or to show more sophistication than a bitchy teenager...

Jennifer’s Body is high school in every sense of the term. The plot could have come from any semi-literate with a Metallica tee-shirt: A stone fox is possessed by a randy demon with a hankering for boy flesh. In the end, good triumphs over evil. We learn this in the first five minutes, but it isn’t until the closing »

- Tristan Sinns

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Jennifer's Body (2009)

17 September 2009 2:01 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

Directed by Karyn Kusama

Written by Diablo Cody

Featuring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons

Review by Matthew Funk

Fans of Joss Whedon will delight—four years after Fox cancelled Firefly, they pay partial penance with this well-intentioned Buffy: The Vampire Slayer remake: Jennifer’s Body. Like Buffy, Jennifer’s Body uses wit and comic book violence to observe that high school social climbing is a close cousin to cannibalism. Unlike Buffy, it fails to deliver the dramatic goods or to show more sophistication than a bitchy teenager...

Jennifer’s Body is high school in every sense of the term. The plot could have come from any semi-literate with a Metallica tee-shirt: A stone fox is possessed by a randy demon with a hankering for boy flesh. In the end, good triumphs over evil. We learn this in the first five minutes, but it isn’t until the closing »

- Superheidi

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Ginger Snaps (Film Review)

19 July 2009 6:57 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Restored Archive Review, Originally Posted on 7/1/2001

It has become a sad, familiar refrain: How is it that a scary, intelligent teen horror film like Ginger Snaps can't make it to major U.S. release, while dross like Urban Legends: Final Cut, Valentine and The Forsaken makes it into theaters nationwide? In this case, it is at least understandable, if lamentable, that the studios would be averse to handling Ginger Snaps. Not only is it drenched in blood and the rawest language heard in a youth film since Heathers, it also deals frankly with adolescent female sexuality, a subject the majors have never been comfortable with. Not to mention that (speaking of Heathers) it spotlights two sisters who rehearse their own suicides, and not all the bloodletting is done by the victims. Menstruation is a key subject here, and it's easy to imagine studio heads reacting the way the young protagonists' »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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American Psycho Helmer Adapting Diaries

24 March 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

Mary Harron, who tackled the controversial novel American Psycho in 2000, is up to adapt author Rachel Klein's debut novel "The Moth Diaries." Published in 2002, Klein's story is set against the backdrop of a girls' boarding school where a 16-year-old named Lucy suspects her roommate is a vampire. But, through this tale, there is a growing question of what is reality and what is merely stemming from Lucy's warped fantasies? Karen Walton ( Ginger Snaps ) reportedly drafted an adaptation, but it's unknown if she's still on board. If she is, this could be a film to keep an eye out for. A Walton/Harron pairing is intriguing. Since Psycho , Harron has directed The Notorious Bettie Page and episodes of The L Word and Fear Itself . »

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Pretty Bloody explores women in horror

20 February 2009 10:51 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Fango received word of a new project that’s part of an exciting and growing trend: documentaries that cover the contributions women have made to our beloved genre. With no shortage of feminine—and feminist—critiques and perspectives out there, Donna Davies and Kimberlee McTaggart of Canada’s Sorcery Films have made their own contribution to the mini-boom with Pretty Bloody: The Women Of Horror.

The hour-long show, which premieres next Wednesday, February 25 at 10 p.m. on Canada’s Space channel, examines the experiences, motivations and impact of the increasing numbers of women engaged in the fear business, featuring interviews with actresses, directors, writers, critics and even academics who are passionate about the topic. Shooting in Toronto, Los Angeles and New York, Davies and McTaggart spoke with such notable horror figures as Pet Sematary director Mary Lambert, actress/Fango Radio host Debbie Rochon, Ginger Snaps screenwriter Karen Walton, Broken Mirrors »

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2009 | 2008

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