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Summary: Not your typical Werewolf movie
Review: I just saw this film and it ROCKED! Basically, it's sort of the run-of-the-mill horror film about two sisters, one of whom becomes infected with a werewolf virus. But it takes the genre to a new level.A lot of people have compared this film to "Heathers" for its similar treatment of suburban teenage angst. Fair enough, but what makes this movie special is the way it works the werewolf archetype into a metaphor for female sexuality. Ginger (the werewolf) and her sister Brigitte are 16 and 15, but neither has begun menstrating. This delay makes for a powerful onset when the "female curse" (the film's term) combines with the werewolf virus. Transformation is always popular with adolescent boys (pokemon, ninja turtles, transformers, gobots etc.) and hollywood monsters have always been used for metaphors for human experiences and stages and (werewolf: our animal nature; vampires: death and disease; mummies: resurrection; frankenstein: God and parenting) This is the first film that has encompassed both transformation and monsterhood and applied it distintively to women. Additionally, this film should be credited with its intelligent handling of drug use. Without glorifying drugs, Ginger Snaps depicts one of the supporting characters as a pharmalogically wise and sympathetic drug dealer. His character brings out a more complex view of drugs (appropriate when they are not divorced from their spiritual and medical significance) in a scene that looks a lot like heroin preparation. The two main actors, Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle, have great chemistry and pull off the very difficult job of delivering Buffy/Heathers/Scream/Jawbreaker type comedic lines without breaking the seriously frightening mood the film creates.
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Summary: I was shocked at how good this was!
Review: I saw part 2 sitting in the rental section and laughed and thought it was going to be a horrible movie, so I didn't pick it up...even though I love B movies. But I came to Amazon to look at some customer reviews of part 1 and part 2. To my surprise there were great reviews of the movies. So..I said to hell with it and bought this movie from Amazon. A few days later it shows up and I throw it in the DVD player and me and 4 of my buddies started to watch it. All of us got a kick out of this movie (even though we didn't like the ending that much). The beatdown on the school field was classic to us guys and we had to rewind it twice to watch it..lol. This aint your typical Werewolf movie, which is a good thing! If you are a fan of renting those movies that aren't block buster hits...'B' movies...then you owe it to yourself to pick this movie up. I'm 100% satisfied I bought it and now I'm waiting on part 2 to show up in the mail!
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Summary: One of the best!
Review: This is one of the BEST werewolf films EVER made. It's "curse" is brilliant, its about a girl just reaching "womanhood" let alone "werewolfhood". The film taps both in a brilliant way. However I would suggest trying to find the canadian version on ebay etc as it is widescreen etc and has ALOT of bonus features not presented here.
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Summary: Great film which never got a chance. Watch it! Buy it!
Review: Despite gathering high praise on the festival circuit, "Ginger Snaps," in a move of embarassing stupidity, was dumped straight to video by Artisan Ent. Hollywood, after a handful of rotten "Scream" clones (like "Valentine") had tanked at the box office, felt Horror films were on the way out, and never gave this fantastic film a chance to succeed. Well, don't be fooled by the fact that you've never heard of this movie until you saw it on the video/DVD shelf... it's great. Using the classic turning-into-a-werewolf scenario as a metaphor for a young girl's entrance into womanhood, this film finds a fresh new angle on an oft-told tale. And, beyond being a horror film, it's also very much, if not more, a character study of two goth sisters who, at the film's beginning, are virtually inseparable but, through the course of the film, grow further apart as one grows hairier and more lustful (for more than just sex) while the other remains an "innocent" little girl. Despite the low-budget, the SFX are effective, better than some artificial CGI (they primarily use puppetry and good ol' fashioned gore). The two girls who play the sisters are fantastic and are aided and abetted by a strong supporting cast. Do yourself a favor: don't let this clever flick pass you by. Why, after seeing it, you may just have to own it!
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Summary: Another Interesting Twist On The Werewolf Legacy...
Review: "Ginger Snaps" is a suprise sleeper. Like "The Company Of Wolves", this film deals with the aspects of puberty and the metamorphosis of a girl... becoming a woman. Sure there's a werewolf storyline here, but the heart of the movie comes from the relationship between the two sisters, Brigett and Ginger. Without these intimate characters, this could have been just a campy low budget movie. There is a bit of campiness to the film, but it doesn't overshadow the plot. The effects are low budget, so don't expect "An American Werewolf In London" Rick Baker wizardry here. But you should expect an enteraining horror film with characters you care about. Katharine Isabelle (Ginger) and Emily Perkins (Brigette) are fantastic and hopefully have promising film careers ahead of them. Heads Up: There is a Canadian DVD version of this film that offers a Widescreen Format and loads of extras (including some great and crucial deleted scenes)
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Summary: A Good Werewolf Pic.
Review: The story is about two teenage sisters who encounter a werewolf. One sister is bitten. She slowly transforms into a werewolf while they both search for a cure. The werewolf characters are very realistic and scary! However, this werewolf pic is also about the love between two sisters. They both know they have limited time to find a solution. They must find a cure before the one who was bitten completely transforms into a werewolf. The last 10 minutes of the movie I watched in "slow motion"! It was so scary! But, at the end I cried. A lovely Werewolf Horror Movie!
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Summary: I loved this movie.
Review: As stated above I absolutely loved this movie. Definetly one of the best horror movies to come out in the last 10 years. I saw it recommmended in a book and decided to check it out. So glad that I did. Way underappreciated. Pick this up when you get a chance.
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Summary: Well, this was a pleasent surprise..
Review: When I walk through the video store, I may look at a movie two dozen times before I finally pick it up to atch it. It always seems that the longer I wait to see a movie, the more I like it. Such is the case with GINGER SNAPS.
I'm not going to go into a long synopsys of the film, plenty of other people have done that thus far. What I will say is that this is a solid werewolf film. I don't want to say that the story has been "updated" so much as the circumstances have been (ie: seriously, what would YOU do if you were bitten by a werewolf while YOU were in Highschool?)
The acting by both of the leading young ladies is great, the gore is not overdone and beliveable and there are very few, if any, plot holes to take issue with. The only reason I'm not going to 5 stars is that, I will admit, the film slows down towards the end in comparrison to the begining. But even with that, the momentum created in the begining is enough to carry you through to the end. Combine a decent price with good production and execution and you get one hell of a rad film. Go get it.
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Summary: IS VANILLA WAFERS NEXT?
Review: Let's forget all the rhetoric on how this movie shows true teenage angst, the lack of sensitivity to those teens who are "different," and take GINGER SNAPS for what it really is: a low budget, but very original and involving, horror film. Amidst all the attempts to make some kind of social statement, what we have here is the tale of a 16 year old and her younger, goth sister, who find life changes when you get bit by a werewolf on the first night of your first period. Period. What follows is nothing more than the fact that Ginger though repelled by her fate, still enjoys the bloodletting and feeling of power her lycanthropy brings. Younger sister must like it too because near the end of the movie, well, no spoiler, but let's not make this some kind of "classic" movie. It IS a very well-acted film (Katherine Isabelle and Emily Perkins are perfect; Mimi Rogers as their dimwitted yet devoted mother is amazingly good). It has moments of terror, some witty dark humor and lots of gore for those fans of such. Wrly directed and provocative, GINGER SNAPS is an above average horror film. It's ending is somewhat disappointing, but with the two sequels that follow, I'm sure we'll find out why this one ended that way. So, enjoy this well made and different horror movie and don't spend too much time trying to philosophize it's underlying statements, which have been done many times before, most notably in CARRIE.
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Summary: Intelligent and Enjoyable Variant on Werewolf Theme
Review: Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle are Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald, a couple of disaffected goth-type teenagers. Think of Birch and Johanssons characters in `Ghost World' but younger, less witty and a whole lot more morbid and you'll get the idea. Indeed they are completely obsessed by death and suicide. Then one night two terrible things happen. Ginger gets `the curse', her first period, much to the delight of their mother and the kooky school nurse and the horror of her sister. And she is pursued by a werewolf that succeeds in biting her before being splatted by a passing van. And then she starts to change...
Neil Jordan's 1984 Angela-Carter-inspired `Company of Wolves' used werewolfhood as a metaphor for male sexuality and the threatening face it presents to young women. This film turns that conceit around and uses werewolfhood as a metaphor for female sexuality and the threatening face it presents to young, erm, women. In Jordan's film the conclusion was, in effect, cool it girls, really, whatever Granny may say, the wolf is not so very much to be feared. In this film the wolf is every bit as scary as you always thought it was. It's a nice, original, intelligent horror movie. A hybrid of the horror and high school genres, it also rather invites comparison with Rodriguez's `The Faculty' but is loads better, and loads darker, than that was.
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