Ginger Snaps
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Movie Reviews of Ginger Snaps
Movie Review: great
Summary: 5 Stars
i delayed wathing ginger snaps for years because of the dvd cover. it gave me the impression of some really cheesy 90's b movie and i didnt want to waste the time. but. a friend strongly recommended that i watch it, and thank god i did. this is one of the best paranormal movies i've seen.
the story is about two sisters and one night walking home, the elder, ginger, gets bitten by a 'dog'. slowly the bitten sister begins to change, in a social sense as well as a physical sense. she begins taking an interest in a boy she and her sister previously looked down upon, she distances herself from her sister, brigitte, with whom she shared a very close bond before the bite, and she even experiments with drugs. in addition to this her hair begins to change colour and she grows more of it all over her body. she even grows a tail. brigitte becomes concerned and looks into many possibilities, one of which is that her older sister was bitten by and is now changing into a werewolf. she then goes about trying to find a cure, while having to deal with ginger, who is getting cravings for blood and is changing into something that is less and less like the sister she was once so close with.
what mkaes this movie different than a lot of other paranoral horrors is that there is a really stong femenine voice present in both of the sisters. other than buffy, women play the wilting heroine in horrors, and in alot of other genres as well. not so in this movie. ginger has a very powerful personality throughout the whole movie. even before the change, she'd stick up for brigitte when she got picked on and would talk back to people who would speak against either her or her sister. after the change she exuded an even more pronounced air of self- confidence. she doesn't show doubt. brigitte on the other hand at first seems very timid and meek, which she might be, brigitte displays an inner strength that ginger lacks. she resists the temptation of power, which she would get if ginger bit her and she turned into a werewolf. she seems like a follower at the beginning, but she's just loyal.
something else that makes this movie interesting is that it's an allegory of puberty for girls. after ginger gets bitten, she also gets her period for the first time. then when she is reacting weird to being bitten by a werewolf, adults just assume she's acting so abnormal because 'its that time of the month' instead of seeing it for what it is. it's a great social commentary on how society tends to deal with women as something foreign and potentially scary, especially around menstruation. the funny thing was that it was women voicing these views. the mom just fluffs off ginger's moody behaviour as 'growing up', and the school nurse does the same thing when ginger tells her about her symptoms. all of the ginger snaps movies have some sort of feminist theme if you look for it, but this one is the most blatent and deals most directly with how as a society we choose to perceive women as foreign, evil, and abnormal.
even without the allergical reference this was an awesome movie. it was fast-paced and suspenseful. on my top five list for paranormal movies of all time!
Movie Review: Awesome!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the best werewolf films ever made. Teen sisters Ginger and Brigitte, outcasts with a penchant for the dark and morbid, are surrounded by overly permissive parents, ineffectual teachers, and the normal amount of angst that accompanies adolescence. However, just as Ginger begins menstruating she is attacked by a werewolf and is infected by the bite. As her malady progresses, she moves from killing animals to people, and younger sister Brigitte tries to hide the rising body count while trying to find a cure. The werewolf is glimpsed briefly at the beginning of the film and then not again until Ginger's final transformation at the end. In between, the story is capably and tensely held together by the changes in Ginger's personality, and the growing emotional and physical separation of the two sisters. The film perfectly blends the "curse" of lycanthropy with the "curse" of womanhood; more than once Ginger uses the term "monster" to refer to her changes. There is much to like about "GINGER SNAPS" and serious viewers will appreciate the symbolism inherent from beginning to end.Movie Review: Awesome Movie.
Summary: 5 Stars
As all horror fans know it's hard to make a good Werewolf movie, not that werwolves aren't kick butt it's just that it's hard to get a good plot, Dog Soldiers did it perfect, Bad Moon did it, The Howling did it, American Werewolf in London did it, now Gingersnaps does it. Great plot, great gore effects and cool looking Lycanthropes which equals a great Werewolf movie, i can't wait to see the sequal.Movie Review: cool movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD edition of Ginger Snaps is the one to get. It has deleted scenes and other features not found in the other DVD editions. Anyways the movie itself is pretty good, mixes were-wolfs with high school girls and features blood and gore and humor. Overall definitely worth watching, just be sure to get this DVD edition.Movie Review: Great Movie! Great Extras!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has it all - humor, plot, creepy scenes and lots of blood! The extras included with this Canadian version are fantastic. (I would recommend only buying the Canadian Collector's Edition / CE - the US release does ont include any of the extras!)
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