Ginger Snaps
They don't call it the curse for nothing.
Production
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
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Official Trailer
Make Up Artist Paul Jones Discusses The Werewolf Suit Used For Ginger Snaps
Jesse Moss Reflects On His Hardests Scenes To Film In Ginger Snaps
Emily Perkins Discusses Playing Brigitte In Ginger Snaps
Wolf Attacks Girl In Park
Cast
Katharine Isabelle
Ginger Fitzgerald
Emily Perkins
Brigitte Fitzgerald
Kris Lemche
Sam
Mimi Rogers
Pamela Fitzgerald
Jesse Moss
Jason McCardy
Danielle Hampton
Trina Sinclair
John Bourgeois
Henry Fitzgerald
Peter Keleghan
Mr. Wayne
Lucy Lawless
Announcer on School's PA System (Uncredited)
Lindsay Leese
Nurse Ferry
Wendii Fulford
Ms. Sykes
Ho Pak-Kwong
Janitor
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Reviews
Wuchak
***Melancholy, foul (but amusing) werewolf flick in the suburbs of Toronto with Katharine Isabelle***
Two Goth-ish sisters in the burbs of Ontario are outcasts at their school and obsessed with death. Redhead Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) is hot and blunt while Brigette (Emily Perkins) is mousey. When the former gets bit by an evident werewolf she slowly starts morphing and it changes the siblings’ lives forever. Kris Lemche and Jesse Moss are on hand as the dudes in the girls’ lives while Mimi Rogers plays the seemingly oblivious mother.
"Ginger Snaps" (2000) takes place in the Fall and there’s a gloomy pall with constant F-bombs (mostly from Ginger), but an edge of black humor. The blithe mother, for instance, is amusing. There are similarities to “The Rage: Carrie 2” (1999), but it’s nowhere near as effective. The set-up is good, but the story starts to drag from there and the suburban locations are disagreeably one-dimensional. Katharine Isabelle is the sole feminine interest, but Perkins plays a somewhat interesting character. Meanwhile Lemche’s Sam is notable as the unexpectedly gallant pot-pusher.
The film runs 1 hour, 47 minutes and was shot in suburbs of Toronto (Brampton, Mississauga & Markham).
GRADE: B-/C+
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