Jenifer

6.3
2005 0 hr 58 min Horror , TV Movie

After a detective rescues a mute disfigured woman from being murdered, he takes her into his home to prevent her from staying in a mental hospital, a move which alienates his family and soon turns to obsession.

  • Cast:
    Steven Weber , Carrie Anne Fleming , Beau Starr , Julia Arkos , Harris Allan , Mark Acheson , Cynthia Garris

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Reviews

Exoticalot
2005/11/18

People are voting emotionally.

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SnoReptilePlenty
2005/11/19

Memorable, crazy movie

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Siflutter
2005/11/20

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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Hayden Kane
2005/11/21

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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Foreverisacastironmess
2005/11/22

This was one of the episodes that I most loved and was blown away by years ago when the series first aired. It's a really sick and disturbing story that I consider to be great horror because it is actually grotesque and horrific. Jenifer is such a genuinely creepy creation - she's f****n' Freddy Kruegar Belial Basket Case creepy in my book! The notion of her itself is scary, the inhuman face and soulless black eyes completely at odd with and yet at the same time somehow complementing the beautiful body, the disarming way she squeals like an impish child and mostly appears to be just a horribly disfigured woman, yet is really some kind of voracious she-beast of animalistic appetites both vicious and sexual that devours the unwary and enslaves a man with twisted desire until he goes out of his mind and tries to kill her, unwittingly bringing about the latest of victims in an endless chain of sex, blood, and death! She's such a bizarre walking contradiction, absolutely disgusting and yet at once weirdly alluring. She's both a beauty and a beast, and the grimy, unsettling tone of the sex scenes does make you feel a bit uncomfortably gross! She seems to be basically mindless except for when she targets the shop owner's son out of jealousy. I love that sequence a lot where she lures the young guy further into the woods without showing him her face until she has him where she wants him. To me that part feels like a little deadly dark fable for a moment, you could imagine her enticing victims the same way throughout the ages. Monsters are always more interesting and frightening when they have an aura of mystery, and I love how you just never quite know if she's a demented freak or if there's something a little more supernatural at work. Carrie Anne Fleming did a great job of bringing that creature to life with just grunting and body language, which really must not have been that easy as she couldn't exactly make expressions under the heavy prosthetics and was wearing a flimsy nightgown most of the time. And Steven Webber really holds it all together and grounds the episode. He's so good at looking beat and broken down. It's so nasty and grungy to think he makes love to that and just can't break the addiction-like hold she has over him even after he's aware of her bloodthirsty true bestial nature when she eats the cat and the poor sweet little inquisitive girl next door. There are some things in it that I do find cheesy, like when they gasp out "Jenifer!" with their dying breath and pass on the mantle as it were, and when Frank's wife first sees Jenifer and screams and gets bitten on the mouth, that whole scene as well as when she rips the cat apart are grisly but so loony and over the top that it comes off as kind of hilarious. I read the original comic and I think Argento did very well in adapting it into a television episode. The comic isn't large and needed some padding to make up an hour length story, and he expanded the story while keeping it basically the same. If you compare them visually there are scenes that are impressively faithful recreations of the comic panels. To me this unrelenting onslaught of terror is a good romp that packs a visceral punch. Looking back this show still has some of the best horror I'd seen in years, and this one was always one of the real standout tales of the series. Jenifer kills it!

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bmw_lele
2005/11/23

To start of with, this is perhaps the only movie that I truly hate with ULTRAHARD passion. I shall restrain myself from spoiling too much in this review but to some extent it is necessary to explain what an awful "movie" this is.The movie stars of where this cop Frank is taking a leak in the woods and by chance stumbles across a man who is just about to kill this supposed innocent woman (her face is not shown). Frank shoots the man to death and saves the girl only to discover her true form, which is the disfigured face of hers. She starts to seduce Frank and they have sex...The main character Frank is one of the most stupid characters in cinema history without a doubt; He first takes Jenifer to the police-station but nobody wants to take care of her so he decides to let her live with him and his family. He will later be given the choice between family and Jenifer (who at this point has done LOTS of sick things already) and yea, this movie is VERY predictable so of course he chooses Jenifer who still continues with her animal/swine-like behavior until it reaches a certain point (where I had already lost my mind thanks to the amount of stupidness this film contains) and the cop finally decides to take care of her just like the guy in the beginning tried to do, he goes out in the woods with Jenifer on a leash just like the swine she is and it's not that hard to guess what is going to happen (like I said almost everything in this movie is 100% predictable).Apart from the predictable story; the acting is also bad, the music is bad and the cinematography is also really bad. Terrible terrible movie *shrugs*If you want to feel what it's like to truly hate a movie, I recommend this one. Chances are high you are going to feel like me after-wards; Gutted and REALLY ANGRY.However if you only want to see a good movie/horror-flick; best thing to do is to ignore this movies existence.1/10

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ramyawad24
2005/11/24

I just finished watching "Jenifer" and let me the first to say that this movie had me on the edge of my seat. This movie is about a cop who saves a deformed girl from a deranged man who tried to kill her with a meat cleaver .. as the movie goes on he becomes obsessed with Jenifer.. He protects her but what he didn't know will come back to haunt him. I didn't know that such a deformed person could be so sexy.I've seen some sick movies, but this is by far the sickest movie I have ever seen. I know this will sound weird but I was so freaked out I wanted the movie to end. If you are a fan of horror you should definitely go out and get this movie.

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Michael_Elliott
2005/11/25

Jenifer (2005) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Dario Argento's entry into the Masters of Horror series is one of the best I've seen and like the John carpenter episode, this provides the director with his strongest work in quite some time. A policeman (Steven Weber) saved a beautiful woman (Carrie Anne Fleming) with a deformed face from being killed and slowly finds himself becoming obsessed with her, which turns his life upside down. Argento's director is right on the mark for this rather bizarre and sometimes sickening film. It's basically a very strange love story and Argento captures this perfectly with some nice humor as well as some disgusting violence and gore. The most shocking thing is the extremely graphic sexual nature of the film, which asks the question if a guy could be "turned on" by a woman like this and we see the answer is graphic detail. This weird sexuality is something we haven't seen in horror movies since the late 70's (I'm talking the late 70's Euro scene).

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