Hot! Hot! Hot! That's obvious in a high school flick with Megan Fox as Jennifer, a sex bomb who turns she-demon and behaves like the heartless bitch she always was except for killing boys and macking on her mousy BFF (a terrific Amanda Seyfried). It's the smarts in the script by Juno's Diablo Cody that sneak up on you. Loved the excuse by a rocker (Adam Brody) for sacrificing Jennifer to Satan: "Do you know how hard it is for an indie band to make it?" We do. Director Karyn Kusama is torn between duty to female empowerment and slasher convention. But Fox shows a comic flair that Transformers never investigated. And Cody knows the horror of just being a teenager.

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“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”