In JB, men take a major backseat-usually located somewhere in Jennifer Check’s digestive tract. Sure, there’s the occasional outlier that showcases lady friends (See: The Craft or The Descent), but even so, major plot lines and dynamics seem to be so wrapped up in men that it would be difficult to prevent a Bechdel-related eye roll. The 1962 classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? showcased a dynamic between sisters, Carrie (1976) provided a look into a mother/daughter relationship in a cycle of abuse, but until Cody and Kasuma concocted the plot of JB in 2009, there were very few mainstream horror narratives that attempted to define an intimate female friendship. Diablo Cody & Karyn Kusama’s horror-comedy Jennifer’s Body was a rare and valiant effort to capture the complexity of female relationships and methods of coping with male abuse within the horror genre at a time well before #MeToo. What do you get when two badass women join forces to tell the story of a thinly-veiled bisexual succubus seeking revenge exclusively on her male abusers? A queer cult classic.
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