Jennifer's Evilicious Body
The horror twitterverse has been abuzz about the release of the red band trailer for Jennifer's Body and I thought in addition to reviewing the trailer, I'd bring up something that no doubt many of you have noticed already. When Fox Atomic released their promo poster for J ennifer's Body back in 2008 it looked suspiciously similar to a poster for the HBO series True Blood . Though neither HBO or Fox Atomic chose to comment, the striking resemblance is perhaps a sign that great minds think alike, at least in the horror biz. Though the poster for Jennifer's Body lacks the fangs of it's twin, the blood and ruby red lipstick still evoke fears of the vagina dentata with an image that is simultaneously revolting and arousing. Horror has long been considered a body genre, as Barbara Creed explores in her book The M onstrous Feminine: Film Feminism and Psychoanalysis (the cover of which also resembles the above posters) , with films featuring the abject feminine body as...