I remember when I first saw this movie, I must have been in highschool. It was far before I was introduced to the fact that horror-comedy was even a thing. I was just going straight horror for a long time to catch up on decades of movies I wasn't alive for yet. I remember this movie being advertised solely as a horror movie. I watched it and it just seemed to stupid for me to take seriously at all. I was also an unpopular girl in high school and really hated Megan Fox's character because she was such a bitch. Not only to her friend, but to everyone around her. I didn't realize how clever the movie was until years later, and actually even later watching interviews with Megan about the movie. I mean how do you understand a horror comedy. There are so many low-budget horror films that weren't mean to be funny at all - but they are cause they're so bad. I sort of thought that's how this was going. But I mean the cost of production for this movie couldn't have been cheap so the whole concept was confusing. It's not like "The Room" where Tommy was intentionally trying to make a masterpiece and it turned out to be the comedy of our generation. This movie was intentionally trying to be terrible for comic relief to an otherwise terrifying premise.
At the time I guess Megan Fox was the super hot girl in Hollywood. Even Amanda Seyfreid was pretty fresh out of playing the dumb girl in Mean Girls, so the role seemed weird to any fan who would have accidentally stumbled upon the movie. I took some random quiz today and one of the questions was, "what movie would you turn on if you were with a bunch of friends" and honestly this movie is perfect. I don't even know if this movie knows how fucking funny it is. IT'S SO FUNNY. Whoever wrote the script for this was a complete comedian. I mean, the humor from 2009-2020 has changed a lot. We use a lot less sexism, we don't use the word re****. It's kind of like when you laugh at jokes from American Pie or Superbad or any other 00's comedy. The jokes are not appropriate at all. But some of the dialogue is just to die for.
So story is about a super hot girl and her nerdy best friend (who is Amanda Seyfried who is also stunning and they dress her up as a nerd). They go to see a band one night and then everything changes because the band was loo.king for a virgin to sacrifice and Megan Fox turns into this super demon and starts killing everything. It's not supposed to be scary. It's supposed to be ironic, stupid, predictable and comical. She goes around killing people who think she's hot. She uses her sexuality to lure men into dark places to feed her appetite Her friend is trying to save her from killing everyone because she might be secretly in love with her. Chris Pratt appears. Adam Brody appears.
I don't want to give spoilers because I want you to watch this nonsense. But I have to leave some notable quotes behind.
"Extra salty means beautiful." "Well you must be soysauce"
"You're totally jelly you're not invited. You're lime green jello."
"He thinks he's cute enough for me and that's why he's in r***** math"
"I'm not just your bassist, I have feelings too. I'm a human being who plays bass."
"I'm not even a back door virgin"
"Who died, anyone we know?" "We know everyone" "Sucks to be them..."
The gore is just good enough. The movie is cheesy as hell. But they did not market it as a comedy. They hardly advertised it as a horror movie. The people who made this film wanted a cool female driven horror movie where the hot girl is the villain and no one can resist her. I think this was around when Megan was cast for Transformers or something so she was a well known actress - and well known for being super hot. But she is fucking hilarious through the entire movie and plays the demonic villain so well. The promotion was a huge fail because it could have been at least a bit more successful if they had tailored the movie to the proper audience instead of probably a bunch of horny teenaged boys. It makes me laugh. I still like it. Maybe a timeless classic. Maybe just to me.
This might be my worst review yet, sorry!
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