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Summary: Stupid
Review: This movie was stupid. I've never seen such an aweful movie in my life. I can't believe I wasted [the money] to rent the movie. This was a low budget film and gross. The storyline has stupid. Don't waste your money on this film.
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Summary: The best Werewolf movie, period!
Review: Its one of the most original movies I have seen in awhile: 2 sisters (who obsess in death everyday) soon become faced with a far greater horror than just dying.
The werewolves in this movie look the most real (probably most real since "the Howling). It is gory (which gives it high ratings in my book), and it has a very dark atmosphere to it. The ending is very tragic, very Shakespearian. Put this one up there on my favorite horror movies of all time. Ill put it right next to hellraiser :) (not that these movies are anything alike, I just liked them the most), oh and BTW - Dog soldiers was another good werewolf movie!!! also gory!
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Summary: Three and a Half Stars
Review: I didn't expect Ginger Snaps to be nearly as enjoable as it was. If you have evr seen An American Wereweolf in London then Ginger Snaps should feel familiar. It's a lot darker than An American Werewolf in London, but not done nearly as well.
The acting is for the most part, very good, but certain characters could have been portrayed much better.
Ginger Snaps is a very graphic movie. Especially during the opening credits, the gore is particularly disturbing.
As a werewolf movie, however, Ginger Snaps is not bad at all. It has it's strong points, like the lesser theme of two outcast sisters struggling to cope with a world they don't seem to understand. There is some clever dark humor thrown in as well.
Overall, Ginger Snaps is not a bad rental if you are a fan of the genre. It just isn't as well done as John Landis' An American Werewolf.
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Summary: Cool flick
Review: This is not a review, but I just wanted to say that this movie is good and it turned out to be more than I expected it to be, so it's cool. REnt it or something if you like werewolves, I don't know if you'll like it, it's all in the matter of taste. But a job well done with this flick.
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Summary: A Great Canadian Flick
Review: Ginger Snaps blew me away when I first watched it. I think what initally got first me was the humour and repateur of the two leads of Ginger and Bee played by the mind goggling Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle. Their dark gluemy world fascinated me and to some extent I could relate to certain aspects of their lives. This take on werewolves and the terror that interrupts these sisters lives is fascinating. One of the best werewolves tales out there, and I like how it's set in Canada, the settings gives it that extra cold feeling and atmosphere. My only loss is, I really want to see and get my hands on a copy of the version of the DVD with the tons of extras but I'm having a hard time doing so.
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Summary: Actually pretty damn good...
Review: Despite having a goofy title, "Ginger Snaps" is a very effective horror movie. Like all the best horror films/novels, there is a real-life subtext to the horror elements. Sure, this movies is about werewolves, in the same way that George Romero's cult classic "Martin" is about vampires, but both films use the monster as a metaphor for the transformation from kid to adult and all the [] confusion and guilt and, yes, terror of that transformation. And, too, this movie takes an interesting look at the role of women in society and how girls are "taught" to be women. It's not preachy, but it is thought-provoking. And bloody.The lead characters of "Ginger Snaps" are 3-dimensional and their relationships with one another feel authentic. By the time that things start getting seriously out of control, you feel connected to Ginger, her sister, and the drug-guy who's trying to help them, and that makes the ensuing chaos much more effective on a gut level. The pacing on this movie is perfect. At the beginning, we encounter these two sisters who are rather morbid but otherwise quite likable. When one of them gets bit by a werewolf, however, everything begins to change. The older sister, Ginger, is the one who gets bit and it happens coincidentally (?) at the same time that she has her first period. At first, she and her little sister are only mildly freaked out by the weirdness that ensues. Sure, she's growing a tail and all of a sudden has taken a very STRONG interest in boys, but things don't get really insane until the last third of the film.. at which point all hell breaks loose. I wouldn't say that "Ginger Snaps" belongs up there with the all-time greats ("The Shining", "Night of the Living Dead", "Martin", "Parents", "Videodrome", etc.) but it's totally worth seeking out. Good acting, great script, dark humor, and some seriously scary moments.. what more could you possibly ask for?
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Summary: Get the Canadian version of the DVD (...if you want extras).
Review: I nearly purchased this U.S. no-frills, full-screen version of the "Ginger Snaps" DVD, but a friend turned me on to a Canadian version (also Region 1) that shows the feature in widescreen and also has DVD extras. (The Canadian version sports a different package design.) I realize that not everybody is into having letterboxed versions and this may not be a movie that you need extras, so the above cautionary note may not apply to you. In that case, the U.S. version should be okay for you.
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Summary: GINGER SNAPS-- Top-Notch Modern Horror
Review: A deliciously gory and even erotic horror film about a teenage girl's sexual awakening. However, Ginger doesn't want to make out with boys--she wants to tear their flesh apart! A fantastic film filled with excellent dialogue (Mimi Rogers gets some of the most hilarious lines in the film), sharply drawn characters, and effective horror scenes that mingle terror with arousal--how *does* that guy resist Ginger's bestial advances? More a man that me! The pre-credit sequence sets off a mood of dawning horror in the midst of surburban banality, and the first werewolf attack is excruciatingly tense and gruesome. The relationship between the two sisters is very real, touching, and, at the end, bittersweet. Kudos also to the filmmakers for not allowing any CGI in this film-- this is all latex, corn syrup, and a guy in a cool werewolf suit. GINGER SNAPS is I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF meets HEATHERS, or THE FLY meets GHOST WORLD. A bold new film that re-invents the werewolf movie and at the same time the teen drama, GINGER SNAPS gets my highest highest recommendations. Can't wait to see what the director gets up to next!
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Summary: R:*GINGER SNAPS *
Review: This is a gory,horror film about 2 sisters, who are very close, named Ginger and Briggete Fitzgerald who are stuck in the Canadian suburbs of Bailey Downs.The 2 sisters make horrible death seens and discuss about death until one evening ,on a full moon,Ginger experiences her first period and gets bitten by a visous wolf.Ginger starts mutating into a werewolf with a lust for blood, while her younger sister Briggette is deturmined to find a way to help her sister and stop the deaths she has caused.
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Summary: Bad teenage movie
Review: The joke here is on the Canadian government, who funded this (in good faith, I imagine) with taxpayer money. I expected to see violence and a modern angle on teenage lycanthropy. What I saw was TV-caliber acting paired with unrelenting grossness. This movie is sick, disgusting, and gruesome with little or no redeeming value. Mimi Rogers is interesting but not on screen enough to offset the grotesque melodramatics. Peter Jackson, who is now getting lauded for Lord of the Rings, once pulled this stunt on New Zealanders, using government money to fund his appalling zombie [weak] films. What a waste of money.
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