Ginger Snaps 2 - Unleashed
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Actor: Brendan Fletcher, Emily Perkins, Eric Johnson, Janet Kidder, Tatiana MaslanyBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
Published: 2004-04-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-13
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Ginger Snaps 2 - Unleashed
Movie Review: Wild movie, twisted ending. Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars
The original Ginger Snaps had an unusual mix of horror and humor that gave it a strong identity. And by using werewolves as a metaphor for a girl's coming of age ordeal it set a new standard for horror. Ginger Snaps 2 nearly lives up to that standard giving Emily Perkins genuine leading lady status. She provides the emotional weight that holds GS2 together despite the absense of the first one's black humor. Except for an ending that is really twisted and very surprising. We catch up with Brigitte roughly a few years after the first movie ended. We discover that she is still infected because the monkshood does not actually stop the transformation into a werewolf, it only delays it. With her sister dead she is all alone now trying to fight off the inevitable. Adding to her misery: she is being pursued by a male werewolf (presumably, Ginger's boyfriend from the first GS whom she infected by "doing it" with him) who is intent on mating with Brigitte. The genius here is again using the lycanthrope backdrop as a metaphor for the depiction of the lonely life of a junkie. The flick's opening scenes of Brigitte shooting up in the bathroom are priceless. Brigitte eventually winds up in a clinic that has a crooked orderly dealing drugs to patients in return for sexual favors. She meets Ghost, a young girl who's grandmother is recovering after being burned from head to toe. Because grandma was raising Ghost, there is no one else to care for her so the staff allows Ghost to live there. It just so happens that Ghost has a facination for werewolf comics. The two girls bond in a way after the young girl realizes Brigitte's secret. Together, they escape the clinic and take refuge in grandma's house with the big bad wolf still stalking them. (A obvious homage to Little Red Riding Hood.) Once there, a standoff takes place and a dark secret is revealed.
All throughout this movie Brigitte sees visions of Ginger (Katherine Isabelle returning in an effective cameo)suggesting that B still feels close to her sister even though Ginger isn't there anymore. But the visions almost seem to be haunting B and always appear foreboding.
Then there is the ending which is very surprising ,twisted and abrupt. It stays with you because of Brigitte's rather undignified fate and considering how much we rooted for her through two movies. Obviously, that was the intention and it works when you stop and think about it. It's sad and almost comical at the same time.
I hope Ginger Snaps 3 can live up to its predecessors.
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