The blonde star was mortified when her parents insisted on watching Jennifer’s Body, in which Amanda and Megan share a steamy encounter.

She said: “My mom and dad have just seen a film of mine with nudity. My mom saw me have sex with two different types of people on screen. She knows it’s acting but it’s not necessarily OK with me.

“It was difficult when my mom sat down with me to watch Jennifer’s Body.”

Amanda previously revealed she found locking lips with 23-year-old Megan for the high school horror movie “uncomfortable”.

She said: “It was my first time doing a real kissing scene with a woman. It is just weird. It is a woman. With a woman’s smell – soft and floral-y – and maybe the pheromones are different. Something about it felt uncomfortable for me.”

Amanda – who is dating her Mamma Mia! co-star Dominic Cooper – also had to canoodle with an older Hollywood actress in forthcoming film Chloe.

The 23-year-old star has admitted the same-sex scenes were a challenge.

She explained: “I have a love scene with Julianne Moore in Chloe. When you are done with the scene, you just think, ‘Oh God, I can do anything. I have just had sex with a woman!’ ”

Source: Monsters and Critics

A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?

From: /Film

But again, this film feels more like a comedy than it does a contemporary horror movie, and I’m sure those who might end up liking Jennifer’s Body, will appreciate the humor over the scares/gore.

From: Reuters

Presumably, Kusama wants to underscore that this is more a comedy than a scare-a-thon. Pity she didn’t trust her audience to discover this on their own, though. All that is really needed are lines like Needy’s, when trying to explain Jennifer’s transformation to Chip, “She’s really evil, not high-school evil!”

The film doesn’t lack for energy. It moves along briskly, and Kusama and Cody (who serves as executive producer) achieve several striking visual images involving blood, shadows and gloomy places. The film is technically smooth, too, so Jennifer’s Body is not a total miss. Just a stinging disappointment for Cody fans.

From: Screen Daily

Despite its selling points, however, Jennifer’s Body can’t help but feel unsatisfying. Part of the problem comes from the filmmakers’ noticeable superiority to the genre they’re working in. Jennifer’s murderous acts lack tension and are shot rather perfunctorily, as if Kusama is contemptuous of horror movie conventions but is unsure how best to parody them. And while Fox certainly has the physical attributes required to be every young man’s object of desire, she doesn’t have the truly witchy demeanour needed to make Jennifer despicably arrogant about her looks. The rest of the cast do their best with equally underdeveloped roles, but Adam Brody shows real comic flair as the local band’s cocksure frontman.

When a gorgeous cheerleader is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a small Minnesota farming town, her “plain Jane” best friend must kill her, then escape from a correctional facility to go after the Satan-worshipping rock band responsible for the horrible transformation.

“I’m a man-eater. I eat boys. I’m sort of a zombie, but not really. I get improperly sacrificed [and it possesses me]… my character is a frighteningly vapid high school girl who’s captain of her flag team.”

“She gets improperly sacrificed by Adam Brody’s band, who have sold their souls to Satan in order to get a record deal,” Fox laughed. “And what happens when you improperly sacrifice someone is the victim gets taken over by a demon. They thought I was a virgin — and I was not a virgin.”

“So, I get taken over by a demon,” Fox continued. “And in order to maintain the state of the undead, I have to feast on human flesh. And so, I start eating boys.”

As anyone who’s seen “Juno” will remember, Cody’s style is as highly stylized as it is intricately hip. And so, Fox said that all the actors on set were careful to keep their improv tendencies to a bare minimum.

“That was actually something that was hard about making that movie,” Fox revealed. “Because it was Diablo — and because she just won an Oscar — we were not allowed to deviate from the script. Not even a single word.”

In this day and age of Judd Apatow, Christopher Guest and other ad-lib-loving filmmakers, such script fidelity has become rare. “It was really hard coming off of Transformers, because everything is improvised — we don’t stick to the script almost at all,” Fox said of Michael Bay’s giant robot films. “So that was difficult. [Cody] definitely has a very specific way of speaking and of writing. But I feel like I tackled it okay.”

In the film, a gorgeous cheerleader (Fox) is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a small Minnesota farming town. Her “plain Jane” best friend must kill her, then escape from a correctional facility to go after the Satan-worshipping rock band responsible for the horrible transformation.

It was among the more gothic scenes in Jennifer’s Body, a closing battle with fewer rules than Ultimate Fighting, pitting Jennifer (Transformer’s Fox) against her longtime friend Needy Lesnicky (Seyfried, of Mamma Mia!) and her relatively wimpy boyfriend Chip Dove (Evan Almighty’s Simmons). The movie’s swimming pool location, inside a derelict juvenile hall slated to become a hospital for British Columbia’s criminally insane, was forbidding in its own right. The flotsam in the pool’s filthy water — leaves, a wheelchair, beer cans — made the entire setting for the film stomach-turning, especially since the young actors had to swim in it.

Somehow, though, it wasn’t quite disturbing enough.

“The vomit has too much hang time,” said Karyn Kusama (Girlfight), the film’s director. “It’s arcing too much.” Screenwriter Diablo Cody wondered aloud, “Can’t we adjust it, like a shower head?”

So the Jennifer’s Body special-effects team reset the compressed-air-powered rig, which discharged the artificial throw up from a tube hidden near Fox’s mouth. Carrying a lot more momentum, the barf in the subsequent take screamed out with the trajectory of a Manny Ramirez line drive. “That’s our money shot,” Cody said as the actors toweled themselves off.

Classing it down?

Oscar-winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian followed his Schindler’s List win with “A Civil Action and Gangs of New York. After winning his Forrest Gump screenwriting Academy Award, Eric Roth scripted The Insider and Ali. Ronald Harwood went from the Oscar-winning The Pianist to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Cody’s post-Oscar path follows a much different direction.

Fresh from her Juno triumph, a debut script that not only brought her the 2007 original screenplay trophy but also made her one of the town’s most in-demand storytellers, the 30-year-old Cody decided to make a horror film.

“I was just experimenting with several scripts,” said Cody, who also has worked on the Showtime television series The United States of Tara and the script for the college comedy “Girly Style.” “I did not think this would be my follow-up to Juno. But I don’t know if I will ever write [another] highbrow, artsy movie.”

In fact, Cody tried to get her Oscar out of her mind — and eyesight. “I literally put it away — under my bathroom sink with the toilet paper,” she said. “It was difficult to look at. I wanted to think of something else.”

Just as Juno was hardly a standard-issue teen pregnancy film, Jennifer’s Body, which comes out next year, intends to be an equally atypical genre movie.

Yes, several people will die horrific deaths. Of course, a stunning girl will appear wearing very few clothes. A young couple will fumble having sex. Pretty much everyone old enough to pay bills — police, parents, teachers — will come across as inept. And then, if Cody and Kusama can pull it off, Jennifer’s Body will veer off in new directions, trying to bring some girl power to what are almost always damsel-in-distress narratives.

“I want to be faithful to the genre but also turn all of those things sideways,” Cody continued. “My biggest priority is putting words in women’s mouths — it just doesn’t happen. Women don’t get the good lines. They don’t get to do anything. And they don’t get to be reckless. And I’ve always been reckless.”

A former alternative newspaper reporter, Internet blogger, sex industry worker and memoirist, Cody grew up loving scary 1970s and 1980s movies — “I’m a horror junkie,” she said. Cody was particularly drawn to thrillers with artistic flair — Rosemary’s Baby, Carrie, The Shining, Poltergeist and the darkly comic pre-” Spider-Man films from director Sam Raimi, especially The Evil Dead.

Yet Cody was equally struck by films that many might not find inherently terrifying, including Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides. “There’s the idea of the adolescent feminine mystique being inherently creepy,” Cody said. “Two girls holding hands platonically as they cross a schoolyard — I find that creepy.”

Just girls being bad

The Central characters in her Jennifer’s Body script are two classmates whose friendship dates back to slumber parties: Needy and Jennifer. Jennifer is a man-eater in both the literal and figurative sense. Needy has been resolutely faithful to her BFF, but changes course when Jennifer crosses to the dark side and decides that Needy’s boyfriend, Chip, would make for a tasty piece of teen jerky. “I am directly influenced by girls I have known,” Cody said. “Girls who treated life as a race, and if there was someone or something they wanted, they would stab you in the back. It’s a movie about hunger. A lot of teenage girls are starving themselves and a lot of them are psychologically hungry, because they are so misunderstood.”

Cody wrote Jennifer’s Body after “Juno,” but before the latter film was released theatrically last December. Producer Jason Reitman, who directed Juno, and Fox Atomic, 20th Century Fox’s since-downsized genre label, joined to buy the screenplay.

“I think the script flummoxes some people,” Cody said. “It’s a little weird, not what you’re used to.” In fact, she said, she’s a little “worried” about how Jennifer’s Body might be received. ” Juno is a life-affirming movie,” Cody said over dinner, with filming wrapped for the day. “And this is a death-affirming movie. The people who really loved Juno — I don’t know if they will love this in the same way. And the people who hated Juno — well, this will just be more grist for the mill.”

While the film, set in rural Minnesota not far from where Cody once lived, tweaks the conventions of the killer-on-the-loose genre, it does so in Cody’s familiar pop-culture-reference-laden style. When a poser devil-worshiping rock band named Low Shoulder decides to perform a human sacrifice, they rely on plans printed out from the Internet.

“Do you know how hard it is to make it as an indie band these days?” one of the group’s members, Nikolai (Adam Brody), says as he prepares to follow the online slaying instructions. “There are so many of us and we’re all so damned cute. If you don’t get on ‘Letterman’ or some retarded soundtrack. . . . Satan is our only hope.”

Kusama and Cody face an unusual challenge with Jennifer’s Body: While the film is populated with gorgeous women, they want to make sure the movie isn’t lecherous. “That’s something you have to grapple with when you are making a monster movie — the girls have to look hot,” said Cody, who describes herself as a radical feminist. “We didn’t have to worry as much about [Juno star] Ellen Page’s lip gloss” as how Seyfried and Fox look in this film.

“But horror is a surprisingly feminist genre,” Cody said. “The last person standing is usually a woman. And most of the guys in this movie are vain and insecure. You’ll notice there are no fathers in this movie. I didn’t want there to be any male role models — I didn’t feel these were girls who were loved by their fathers.”

memoiristDirector Kusama, who read Jennifer’s Body before she had seen Juno or heard of Cody, said the script reminded her of a Grimm fairy tale. “What’s really special about it is the emotional underpinning of the story, and the idea that your parents cannot protect you,” Kusama said.

As she bobbed in the pool wearing a black-and-white prom dress (of course, there’s a prom scene — it’s a horror movie after all), the 22-year-old Fox said she knows girls like Jennifer all too well. “I was the Jennifer of my school — the troublemaker, the anarchist,” Fox said. “She has an appetite for destruction.”

It’s because of people like Jennifer, Fox said, “that I don’t have any girlfriends. Because they always want what every other woman has. There’s no loyalty among women.” Still, Fox said, her character isn’t pure evil.

“I hope that people feel sorry for her,” she said. “She’s a victim before she’s a predator.”

Source: LA Times