Who Else is Stoked about Jennifer's Body?

I mean, other than hormonally-driven teen boys, college boys, married men… and okay, males in general.

As a huge Diablo Cody (Juno, The United States of Tara) fan, I was excited about the movie before I’d even heard about Megan Fox playing the lead. With her at the helm, you know there’s going to be snappy dialogue, unique scenes, and likely a satisfying conclusion—something that many horror films cannot claim.

When I watched the trailer, the line that had me cracking up was when Amanda Seyfried (who as adorable in Mama Mia!) accuses Jennifer (Fox), her best friend in the film, of killing people, and Jennifer retorts, “No, I kill boys,” as if that makes it perfectly acceptable.  

I think I’m just really excited about seeing a strong, scary female monster—as well as a strong-in-spirit, determined female monster-slayer. Instead of having a sexy Buffy-persona as the warrior, here we have a “plain jane” Seyfried as the hero and the Buffy-esque female as the demon rather than the destroyer. More twists, please, Diablo!

Really, what awesome female monsters have we really had? Carrie was one, sort of, but most scary women aren’t demons for real—they are simply psychotic. I’m definitely not complaining about that; I love me some Kathy Bates, Michelle Pfeifer and Faye Dunaway. But to see a real defining monster role carried out by a female should be pretty cool.

Think about it—when you say Freddy, Jason, Leatherface or a number of other names, iconic scary monsters played by men come to mind almost instantly. Now we’ll be able to add “Jennifer” to the list! (And perhaps simultaneously remove it from lists of popular baby names… After all, my own mother decided against naming me Elizabeth when she heard about “Lizzie Borden.”)

As it turns out, Fox—the hottie that’s sure to drawn in a crowd, no doubt—is supposed to be killed by Seyfried, who then seeks out the satanic rock band who possessed Jennifer with the demon to destroy them. It sounds like a completely original, fun plot.

Cody says she was intent upon paying tribute to things we’re used to in horror films—and also flipping them upside-down. “It was truly like a post-modern thriller in that on the one hand I grew up watching these 80s genre movies like The Lost Boys and this and that and I wanted to honor them, and at the same time I had never really seen this particular subgenre done with girls and I tried to do a little of both,” she says.

Jennifer’s Body hits a theater near you on September 18.