The movie is much at its best when dealing merely with suspicions, rather than when later laying out the lycanthropy and laying on the gore.
Ginger Snaps (2001)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:42
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: The strong female cast and biting satire of teenage life makes Ginger Snaps far more memorable than your average werewolf movie -- or teen flick.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) are unusual sisters. For a school project they take pictures of each other in various suicide poses that look frighteningly realistic. No... Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) are unusual sisters. For a school project they take pictures of each other in various suicide poses that look frighteningly realistic. No other students will talk to them. Ginger is almost sixteen, Brigitte a year younger, but they are in the same classes, and neither of them has gotten her period yet. They do virtually everything together--in fact, their motto is "Together Forever"--until one night Ginger gets attacked by the Beast of Bailey Downs, which previously had been killing and eviscerating dogs. And Ginger then begins to change.... John Fawcett's debut feature film is everything a good horror film should be--creepy, weird, oddly funny, sexy, and very bloody, with its conclusion taking place on Halloween night. Michael Shields's moody score lofts above every scene like dark shadows about to envelop the characters. Perkins and Isabelle are outstanding as the two morbid Fitzgerald sisters with a taste for death. This independent Canadian production also stars Mimi Rogers as the mother who can't wait for her daughters to menstruate. [More]
Starring: Emily Perkins, Mimi Rogers, Katherine Isabelle, Kristopher Lemche
Starring: Emily Perkins, Mimi Rogers, Katherine Isabelle, Kristopher Lemche, Jesse Moss, Danielle Hampton, John Bourgeois, Peter Keleghan, Christopher Redman
Director: John Fawcett
Director: John Fawcett
Story: Karen Walton, John Fawcett
Producer: Steve Hoban, Karen Lee Hall
Composer: Michael Shields
Reviews for Ginger Snaps
Enjoyable and effective teen werewolf movie with some refreshingly new ideas and lashings of gore.
This grisly werewolf film is actually a black comedy about a teen girl encountering menstruation. Yes, really.
It's all downhill from there, but there is something efficiently creepy about the enclosed world of two alienated young women in suburbia.
Karen Walton's sharp screenplay is especially strong in the family scenes, allowing performances of Heavenly Creatures intensity from the young leads.
This is not just another monster movie. Ginger Snaps succeeds exactly because it is not 'just' anything.
A stunning teen angst/werewolf film from 2001, this was the best lycanthrope movie since An American Werewolf in London.
Successfully operates on dual levels -- as a horror movie and as a study of two sisters.
A quietly subversive my-sister-is-turning-into-a-werewolf movie that doesn't wimp out at the end.
Ginger Snaps is a satisfying return to mythology, cheesy gore and fear for the horror film.
Ginger Snaps is about as close to a new millennium Heathers as anyone has gotten.
A black comedy that nonetheless manages to tap into the sense of alienation and unfocused rage so prevalent in today's kids.
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