Name drops

Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman will follow Juno by teaming once again – Cody's script, Reitman producing – for an upcoming horror-comedy called Jennifer's Body, directed by Karyn Kusama. (I don't know if it's Cody or Reitman responsible for bringing J.K. Simmons back for this film as well.) The Jennifer in question (Megan Fox of Transformers and Transformers 2: More Transformers) is a small-town Minnesotan cheerleader who succumbs to demonic possession and starts killing the local boys. Her best friend (Amanda Seyfried, of sizable runs on Big Love and Veronica Mars as well as the upcoming Mamma Mia, an entry in the Greatest Hits CD-to-film genre) and a Satanic rock band play parts.

Cody's desperation to prove some hipness included some much-derided Dario Argento name-checking in Juno, so it's not too much of a stretch to see her jocking further from the giallo canon – in this case, her title, which puts me distinctly in mind of Giuliano Carnimeo's The Case of the Bloody Iris, starring Edwige Fenech and George Hilton. More precisely, it puts me in mind of the original 1972 title: Perché Quelle Strane Gocce di Sangue sul Corpo di Jennifer?

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What Are Those Strange Drops of Blood Doing on Jennifer's Body?