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Release Date: 02 September, 2003 Retail Price: $9.98 OUR Price: $9.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (6 total) |
Ginger Snaps Reviews
An intelligent and unique werewolf flick. Who would have thought?
"Ginger Snaps" is a low budget werewolf flick from Canada but that statement hardly does it justice. What we have here is one of the most intelligent horror flicks that have been produced in recent times. What it lacks in special effects it more than makes up for with superb writing and a cast that's capable of making it all come together.
Ginger and Brigitte are teenage sisters that are struggling through the very awkward years of puberty. They help each other through all the confusion and trials by imagining morbid fantasies of their own suicides and making pacts that they will stay together forever whether living or dead. But things become far more taxing when Ginger is bitten by a werewolf and starts to turn. Her pubescent changes are now exacerbated by her gradual transformation into a lycanthrope. With her growing power comes a previously unknown popularity at her school that separates her from Brigitte along with her concern and help.
The choice to combine both feminine pubescence and lycanthropy is pure genius. "They don't call it the curse for nothing" is the tagline of the film and really displays this films split themes. It's both a story about growing up and a horror yarn based on werewolf mythology. The cast are simply fabulous! Emily Perkins' Brigitte suitably appears insecure and apprehensive about life in general. Her character struggles to look people in the eyes and has an almost pathetic look that she cowers behind. Katharine Isabelle is also awesome as Ginger. She oozes both adolescent nonchalance and sexual energy throughout the film. I found myself laughing hysterically several times throughout due to her morbid one-liners and looks of disgust at the world around her. While her transformation into a deadly beast may have been a difficult one as an actress, she pulled it off beautifully, remaining both expressive and sexy in equal doses. The other actress that deserves a mention is Mimi Rogers, not simply due to her being the most well-known of the cast, but due to her role as the sisters' mother. She portrays an extremely caring mother that's totally detached from the reality of her children. It's a demanding role and she performs admirably.
"Ginger Snaps" is almost totally devoid of cliches and manages to be both very funny and quite horrifying at times. It's not all that gory (although dogs do not fair well in this film), but it is a little bit disturbing in its use of violence and teenage struggles in tandem. For such a low budget movie I think the special effects are really very good, yet those used to Hollywood blockbusters should not go in expecting too much. The transformation effects are fantastic, yet the actual werewolves once completed are rather fake looking. But I'm willing to accept that due to the unique qualities of this film and find it to be thoroughly entertaining as a film that traverses several genres. Check it out if you haven't already.
a horrible, cheesy movie
i hated, HATED this film! i normally enjoy watching scary movies, but this movie just did not sit right with me. the characters were frustrating to watch, from the annoying facial expressions the mother keeps making throughout to the incompetence of the younger sister whose thought process just couldn't help but function in slow motion- when she finally found a way to cure ginger, instead of getting it to her as fast as she could she just kept [...] around on the way so ginger finally died. the film probably wouldn't have been as bad if it weren't for the affected acting, and every main character in the movie, except for the dad maybe, had this stupid expression on their faces during the entire movie, like ginger's stupified stare while at the same time trying to be seductive (a total turnoff! ginger, you're just not hot no matter how hard you try!), that younger sister's mopey whiny scrunching of the face, and the mother's ditsy and airheaded mannerism that probably could have worked if done by someone else, but is just so unflattering on mimi rogers and therefore very, very hard on the eyes, which just left me wondering when is this movie going to end, and if these annoying characters will all die hopefully? it was such a chore to get through!
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