Box Office: $31.6 million
Directed by: Karyn Kusama
Production company: Fox AtomicDistributed: 20th Century Fox
Black Comedy, Supernatural
About a typical high school girl who meets a band and gets turned into a demon and kills boys.
Heathers 1989
Box Office: $1.1 million
Directed by: Micheal Lehmann
Production company: Cinimarque Entertainment Distributed: New World Pictures
Black Comedy
Set in Ohio State High school, based around cliques in high school and drop of girls all called heathers.
Both films are set in what seems to be the typical american high school. In the beginning of Jennifers body we are introduced to Jennifer, the main girl of the school. In Heathers we are also introduced to what seems like the typical group of girls in an american teen film. The three girls are sitting in a garden surrounded by a fence. Everything seems to be happy and upper class. However the girls then stand up and walk on the flowers in sinc. This gives us feel not everything is so perfect and 'american'.
We also get a sense that something is no quite right in Jennifers body. Because everything is perfect for Jennifer, she has the friend, she has all the boys she wants. But when she goes out and gets invited out with the band she is so fond of we feel that something bad is going to happen.
What attracts me to both of these films that i want to involve in my initial ideas, are that it is set in a typical high school and everything seems normal but we can never judge a book by a cover. The kindest of people can trick you by appearances. A black comedy (or dark comedy) is a comic work that employs farce and morbid humour, which, in its simplest form, is humour that makes light of subject matter usually considered taboo. Black humour corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humour. Black comedy is often controversial due to its subject matter.
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