High-school beauty Jennifer is the object of every teenage boys desire in the little town of Devil's Kettle. But when she gets bumblingly sacrificed by a rock band looking for fame, she ends up taken over by a demon, becoming an object of terror as once a month she must drain the blood from a male in order to survive. Which leaves her childhood best friend Needy to try to save the day......along with Needy's boyfriend who might just become a victim of Jennifer's attention.
Taking a neat line of going down a wholly female perspective perhaps wanting to take a look at female friendship more than anything else while veiling itself as a hip horror this film just doesn't succeed in it's intention to either scare you or make you laugh while you're scared. Comedy-horror is always difficult to pull off, and the most obvious comparable film that Jennifer's Body wants to be might be 'Heathers'. While it certainly fails substantially in that, it's not a film I could also outright dislike. The horror isn't scary when it's meant to be, but the comedy can be quite clever with several one liners and quips that do nicely hit the mark. Amanda Seyfried as Needy steals the picture, but Fox really isn't that bad either. Since her character spends the whole film as a literal 'object' of some description (of fantasy, of sacrifice or of fear) then her 'emptiness' actually kinda fits the film and her performance matches that, I think, quite deliberately.
Overall I found it interestingly different - but at that, hard to thus really recommend. My best advice is if you want to see it, or are curious about seeing it then give it a try. If you have no interest or never had any interest at all, it's probably best to leave it on the shelf.