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Licensed Killer and Survivor from Jennifer's Body?

TheCube
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Unless there are a lot of cult movie lovers on this forum, I'm not sure the idea will be very enticing. However, the 2009 horror-comedy Jennifer's Body has found a bit of a cult following online since it tanked at the box office back in the day. I remember rolling my eyes and being completely uninterested at the time by the trailers, but I decided to watch the movie a while back after reading some articles on why the movie is a hidden gem. And I have to agree! It's definitely an odd duck, but it's quirky and funny and has a lot of interesting subtext. It's a lot more than just "Megan Fox is really hot and kills people." It's got traces of that Mean Girls humor with added bloodshed.

I know it's a long shot, but I think the two leading ladies could make a fun and interesting Killer/Survivor combo. SPOILERS FOR THE MOVIE BELOW. Yeah, it's a decade old, but I figure I should be polite.

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Jennifer Check (Megan Fox) is a popular high school cheerleader who gets murdered in a satanic ritual and resurrects with a demon inside her. It's hard to say if she's a succubus or just a vampire, but she starts luring boys with the suggestion of sex and murdering them (and eating their insides, or something). She needs to feed to stay strong, attractive, and in control of herself. I think she could provide an interesting foil to some of the current Killers, and she could potentially have a few different tiers of play similar to Mike. She starts the match looking like a relatively normal girl - possibly hard to tell her from a survivor at first - but as the match goes on she becomes more monstrous in appearance and her terror radius widens. Perhaps some abilities to charm or stun/daze survivors. The Succubus, The Resurrected, The Icon, The Influencer lol. Could have fun with her killer codename. She could have a cheerleader outfit, a prom dress, and some regular street clothes as costumes.

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Anita "Needy" Lesnicki (Amanda Seyfried) is the "average Jane" to Jennifer's hot girl, and also the titular cheerleader's best friend. The two have a latent lesbian infatuation with one another that comes out over the course of the movie. She's smart and resourceful, a bit nerdy, helpful. I could see her having abilities related to generators or aiding other survivors. I don't have as much to say about Needy because she's pretty straightforward as survivor archetypes go, but as she is able to stop Jennifer in the end she could have abilities that counteract Jennifer's skill set. Benefits that help her detect a stealth killer by slightly widening their terror radius, locating/taking apart totems, resistant to Jennifer's daze/stun/charm abilities. Just spit-balling.

Anyway, I doubt there are many who have even seen this film, let alone those who would find the base idea compelling enough to seriously consider it. But I've put it out into the universe! Jennifer especially could open up for some fun possibilities, but mechanically I could see her being difficult to implement. If nothing else, I hope I inspire someone to check out the movie. It's a fun one. :)

I also posted this on reddit, so if you see it there, that was meeeeee.