Horror heroines have come a long way since King Kong’s helpless Fay Wray. Today, Megan Fox eats men in Jennifer’s Body—and it’s up to her best girlfriend to stop her. Shannon Donnelly on a cinematic evolution. Plus, a gallery of scream queens.
Why is the horror-film battlefield so often littered with more female casualties than male? Karyn Kusama, the director of Jennifer’s Body—the new movie from Oscar-winning Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody and starring Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried—has a theory: “We really identity with this idea of female vulnerability, that somehow women...
