Diablo Cody Interview, Jennifers Body

Sheila is working hard on the floor of Comic Con reporting in with all kinds of goodies. Last night she sat down with Diablo Cody, Megan Fox and the other fine folks behind Jennifers Body. You can look for the complete interview later this weekend but for now here are some excerpts from Diabloy Cody on making the film.

In the film Megan Fox plays gorgeous cheerleader who 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. Checkout the Jennifers Body Trailer

Q: Can you talk about the challenges of creating a new horror mythology in a world where we’re inundated with remakes and reboots and what resistance you might have faced creating that?

Diablo: Moi? You know, for me, I was simultaneously trying to pay a tribute to some of the conventions we’ve already seen in horror yet, at the same time, kind of turn them on their ear. So, it was truly like a post modern thriller in that on the one hand I grew up watching these 80s genre movies like The Lost Boys and this and that and I wanted to honor that and at the same time I had never really seen this particular subgenre done with girls and I tried to do a little of both.

Q: So is this The Lost Girls?

Diablo: (Laughs)

Q: Were there any horror films with a strong female angle that you did like?

Diablo: You know what’s interesting, and it’s been pointed out many times before, is that often the last survivor standing in the typical horror film is a woman – a Nancy or Jason’s mother or any of the great heroines of horror if you choose to look at them that way. I think horror has always had sort of a feminist angle to it in a weird way and, at the same time, it’s kind of delightfully exploitative. One of my favorite things about doing a horror movie is that we got to do a little of both.

Q: Horror often has a sense of humor about it. When you’re writing it, do you find things that you thought were funny could be injected so the audience had some relief from the horror aspects of it?

Diablo: Well the funny thing is when I first set out to write this is I intended to write something very dark, very brooding, a traditional slasher movie, and then I realized about a third of the way into the process that I was incapable of doing that because the humor just kept sneaking in. I have a macabre sense of humor. A lot of the things in the movie that are horrifying are funny to me. I’ve always said that I think comedy films and horror films are kind of similar in the sense that you can actually witness the audience having physical release. They’re laughing, they’re screaming. It’s not a passive experience so I actually think comedy and horror are kind of similar in that way.

Look for the complete interview later this weekend once we get some time to finish transcribing it. In case you missed it below is a new photo which FOX just released to us.