Before we started shooting, it involved the full appliance attached to [Fox's] face and then her real jaw would be greened essentially inside of her mouth and then the appliance would drop below her real jaw and then visual effects essentially owned everything in her mouth and everything outside would've been a special effects appliance. And then there would've been a lot of clean up as well because of the way it attached to her face. At some point over the last 10 years, people began rediscovering Jennifer's Body via DVD/Blu-Ray and streaming services. And the narrative surrounding the film slowly started to shift; it's now being touted as an iconic feminist horror cult classic. (Fox also starred in the 2010 critical and box office failure, Jonah Hex, based on the DC Comics antihero, which did not experience the same redemptive arc—probably because it is a genuinely bad movie.) Spears stated that while writing the stories, the film was still being made and he had not seen any of it at the time. He mainly learned about the characters through the script. "I got to read the screenplay. It was kinda crazy writing characters that were being changed on set and in the editing process. I had to bob and weave to keep up but that was all part of the fun", he said. [72] See also [ edit ] LexiB (September 21, 2009). "Jennifer's Body D.O.A in Weekend Box Office". LexiB. Archived from the original on May 15, 2011 . Retrieved September 25, 2009.

So what causes this shift? How does Jennifer’s Body go from a failed sex romp to an ahead-of-its-time feminist cult classic in less than 10 years?

More precisely, Jennifer’s Body was always good, and everyone is just now starting to get on its level. There's something deeper going on within story which I'm not going to even try to analyze or express. If someone wants to start a discussion around this in the comments I'll try to contribute some of my thoughts.

Despite the best efforts of its cast, the writing in Jennifer's Body is one of several problems which prevent the film from fulfilling its potential. Cody is a talented screenwriter, as Juno demonstrated, but this time around her characters begin to blend together with very samey dialogue. When Mark Kermode reviewed the film, he remarked that Cody was in danger of becoming "the female Quentin Tarantino", namely writing dialogue in such a way that all her characters sound the same. It's not so bad that it runs the film into the ground, but having all one's characters as spiky and hipsterish isn't a good way to go.a b c Hartlaub, Peter (September 18, 2009). " 'Jennifer Body' sags under weight of cleverness". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on September 30, 2009 . Retrieved September 20, 2009. Evans, Ian; Lambert, Christine (2009), TIFF 2009: Jennifer's Body premiere photos, archived from the original on June 8, 2011 , retrieved November 27, 2009 Faraci, Devin (February 5, 2008). "Jennifer's body is going authentically Emo!". Chud.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2008 . Retrieved February 11, 2008.

Rothkopf, Joshua (September 18, 2009). "Jennifer's Body". Time Out New York. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009 . Retrieved September 19, 2009. Fox said that while filming her highly anticipated kissing scene with Seyfried that Seyfried was "extremely uncomfortable" but that she herself was not. "I feel much safer with girls, so I felt more comfortable kissing [Seyfried] than kissing any of the other people that I had to kiss", she said. [34] Seyfried's uneasiness in the scene caused "giggling fits" between takes. [34] Seyfried said that neither of them wanted to do the kiss because they felt it was just for promotional purposes. [18] 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", she stated. "It is just weird. It is a woman. With a woman's smell—soft and floraly—and maybe the pheromones are different. Something about it felt uncomfortable for me." [35] Music [ edit ] There's the scene where Jennifer's sitting alone smearing makeup on her face. I always thought that was such a sad image. She's so vulnerable. I don't know any woman who hasn't had a moment sitting in front of the mirror and thinking, 'Help me, I want to be somebody else.' What makes it extra affecting is that [Megan Fox] is stunning. [3] For example, these promotional posters highlight Fox’s body and no matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to find the feminist subtext in these images. In fact, these images don’t even really tell us anything about the plot. Where is Needy? Is Jennifer a vampire? The posters completely erase the female friendship that is at the core of the film. a b c d e f g h i j k Kwan, Jennifer (September 14, 2009). "Cody exorcises demons from "Jennifer's Body" ". Reuters. Archived from the original on September 18, 2009 . Retrieved September 23, 2009.

Patience and time

Handling the film's special effects were KNB EFX GROUP and Moving Picture Company (MPC). For Jennifer's demonic form, the creators used different techniques. "I actually wasn't in [the makeup chair] that much because they created an entire head. They did a live cast of me from the shoulders up. They created me and then put the teeth in", stated Fox. "To save my face, they had a photo double that would come in and do most of the crazy monster makeup - they would do that on her. So it would go from me, then in post-production it would somehow go to her and the fake head. They would mix them all together." [15]