Truly Dreadful Film

Am I Missing Something?

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

i absolutely LOVE Argento. Suspiria is in my top five favorite horror films of all time, and I've enjoyed MOST of his other works. I don't think anybody would dispute though, that as he's grown older, his confidence as a director has waned. Jennifer is undeniable proof of this, although I can't pretend that the blame lays squarely with him. I've always liked Steven Webber as an actor (I thought his Jack Torrance in the made- for-TV Shining was quite good), but he should maybe take a break from writing; the script is almost unbearable. Jennifer is based on a short story which I've never read, so I don't know just how much dialogue Webber ripped from it, still...someone on set should have been smart enough to know that "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck with a meat cleaver," is just bad writing. And the dialogue isn't the only problem. --------Spoiler -------Why, oh why doesn't he just kill her in the cabin? I mean, seriously...He ties her up, drags her down a ROAD when he has a perfectly secluded house to off her in. C'mon. There are a lot of moments like this, too. A couple logical failings would be forgivable (let's face it, every horror movie has a few) but I was scoffing so much it sounded like I was coughing up a hairball. -------End of Spoilers-------Now, back to Argento. Ultimately, I think he was the wrong director for this. He's not exactly known for subtlety, his earlier works being highly explicit, graphically-speaking, and I think Jennifer would have benefited tremendously from even a tiny bit more delicacy.

I enjoyed this episode of The Masters of Horror thoroughly. Dario Argento, Steven Weber and Carrie Flemming made this sick little short story come to life beautifully. I have been a fan of Argento's since I was a young teen (I was born in 1979), and I loved the TV show Wings (with Weber) as a child, so I was curious how these two would team up in this day in age. I have to say, this is probably my favorite episode of MoH in all of season one. It's sick and deranged yet I couldn't stop watching. That's in part due to the super sexy Carrie Flemming as the title character. Jennifer has an amazingly sexy body, but the face of demon (if you will), and this girl has quite an appetite! Weber plays a cop who takes pity on her, and he (Weber) is just great in this... I don't want to say much else, except that this is one of those sicko films that isn't for everybody. However of you are a fan of MoH, Argento or like your horror sexy, sick and twisted - this is one film you should see...

I have had trouble watching this one all the way through, but somehow over the years I have finally managed to see the thing in its entirety. A truly sick and disturbing outing by Argento, about an incredibly sexy mute woman (the best kind, for most guys) with a killer face, and I do mean "killer." She just can't stop eating people. A cop befriends her and eventually holes up with her in a remote cabin, leaving behind his family. Nothing he does can stop her from eating people, however. The actress who played this bizarre creature is both highly erotic and scary, which I suspect is how Argento has always viewed women, based on his canon. She is simply amazing. Stephen Weber of WINGS fame plays the obsessed cop. A must-see for fans of ghoul flicks. All others, beware.

Jenifer was one of the most twisted little stories I got to enjoy growing up. It was written by Bruce Jones and illustrated by Bernie Wrightson. I think not Argento or Carpenter but Bernie Wrightson and Richard Corben are the real masters of horror. At first I was nicely surprised by Weber who looks very much like the comic-book character and so does Jenifer. The gore also looks true to the comic. The make-up effects are very good. But that's not enough to make it good, even for a TV episode, anyway not for this Bernie Wrightson fan. What starts out promising quickly turned average and boring. The comic had a much more desolate atmosphere and almost totally depended on the two main characters. The extra characters Argento came up with to fill up this episode of masters of horror were too predictable. Uninteresting clichés without depth, and to me Argento didn't do enough to make the awesome drawings of Bernie Wrightson or the creepy atmosphere of Bruce Jones little story come to live in the way that it deserves. I have to see a real good adoption yet of the old Wrightson styled black and white horror comics. To me they stand by themselves and miles above mediocre, mainstream television productions such as this that are directed by people who had their peaks in cinema over twenty years ago and are now still merely making money of the horror genre without coming up with any good new ideas anymore. Yesterdays rebels are indeed todays sellouts. I'd advice people to read the old short Wrightson comics from the early seventies any time over this. They are worth it. Try reading Jenifer before you watch this. Or better : Just read the comic and skip this.