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Megan Fox thriller to open TIFF’s Midnight Madness

Posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

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Megan Fox in 'Jennifer's Body'

The Festival favourite, which draws dedicated fans to some seriously weird movies at the stroke of midnight, has announced a solid lineup that includes the world premiere of Diablo Cody's latest, a sci-fi horror where vampires rule the world (probably not the Edward Cullen kind though) and genre king George A. Romero's returns to the living dead.

Jennifer Body's stars Transformers pin-up Megan Fox as a gorgeous high school girl with an attitude who soon finds herself with a lot more to worry about than what to wear to prom. She starts looking at her classmates as meals instead of gossip fodder and soon begins snacking on even the nerdiest boys when her cravings get the best of her. Co-starring Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!), Adam Brody and J.K. Simmons, this is sure to draw more than the usual Midnight Madness crowd, especially since many will be curious to see Oscar winner Cody's follow-up to Juno.

Also, on the bill, the hilariously-named Bitch Slap, from the creative mind behind “Xena: Warrior Princess” and “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”, offers a campy look at the adventures of three women searching for treasure in the desert, armed only with machine guns and their femininity, while George A. Romero is back in fine form with Survival of the Dead, where feuds erupt in the middle of a zombie epidemic. Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill join forces under the direction of the Spierig brothers (Michael and Peter) for Daybreakers, a futuristic look at a world overrun by vampires where the few surviving humans band together in a bid for survival.

The 22nd edition of Midnight Madness also includes a prequel, Ong Bak 2: The Beginning, starring martial arts master Tony Jaa, a sequel, [REC] 2, a follow-up to the 2007 Spanish thriller, and a very hush-hush new bid from Japanese comedy superstar Hitoshi Matsumoto called Symbol, which follows the (mis)adventures of a man who escapes from jail and encounters a "unique dilemma."

The 34th Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 10-19 2009.

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