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Ginger Snaps | Year: 2000 Classification: Horror Directed: - John Fawcett Actors/Actresses: - Mimi Rogers - Emily Perkins - Katharine Isabelle "Ginger Snaps" could learn a few things from Ginger Like so much the victims that we see in them time after time, some horror film cliches deserve to live. And, of course, some deserve to die. But just like any film where lots of people are attacked and mauled, not all the deserving cliches croak in "Ginger Snaps." This Canadian, straight-to-video-in-the-U.S. sleeper hit is the story of two teenage misfits,Ginger (Katherine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins) Fitzgerald, who are obsessed with death and black-humored pranks. At school, they're taunted with the word 'freak' and at home, they're lulled to sleep by brainless suburban parents. To keep themselves amused, they arrange "deaths"--stunts set up to look like the real thing--and take pictures of them for art class. But one night, while trying to kidnap a bully's dog, Ginger and Brigitte meet an unexpected surprise while out late at night. What happens after that brings a new meaning to "the female curse." Beginning with the neighbor's dog, Ginger slowly builds up an uncontrollable urge to "rip living things to pieces", as she aptly puts it. While in the beginning Ginger tries earnestly to resist, she's indulged her now-natural inclination for blood by the end of the film and pays the ultimate price for it, but only after making the transition from human to beast. In the shadows of Ginger's bombast is Brigitte, her younger, quirkier sister who's always followed Ginger's lead. But once her older sister begins to let go of who she was, Brigitte finds herself thrust into the role of an unwilling, scared heroine. The only tragic part is that her heroics come too late to save her sister. On the positive side, "Ginger Snaps" has a better, more beliveable story than either "Wilderness" or "An American Werewolf In Paris". There's no local legend or family history to speak of, and we don't see the werewolf untill Ginger is actually attacked. There's also some believability in the sense that the seemingly unknown cast lend an appropriate sense of the ordinary to the suburban hell Ginger and Brigitte call Bailey Downs. Nowhere in this film is the glossy, picture-perfect, party-hardy, brainless MTV lifestyle element that wrecked "An American In Paris", so forget about sticking around after the credits for a music video or two, because it ain't gonna happen.This film doesn't have a Hollywood ending, either--Ginger is accidentally killed by Brigitte after she completes the transformation from teenager to werewolf, leaving Brigitte to quietly sob over the beast's dead body. There is no salvation. No un-wolfing, just death and a string quartet during the credits. Even more importantly is the subplot between Ginger and Brigitte. Once Ginger has her period, things begin to change between the two sisters. In the beginning of the film, they're tight buddies and live in the basement of their house and think up new pranks and new ways to die. At the end, they don't even know eachother anymore. Many other reviewers like to compare G Buy Ginger Snaps at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Ginger Snaps Search with the Priority Search Engine on Ginger Snaps This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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