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| ACTORS: | Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | John Fawcett |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Fox Home Entertainme |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Horror |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543085294 |
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Customer Reviews of Ginger Snaps
GREAT WEREWOLF MOVIE I remember coming across this DVD a few years ago in the horror section and thinking that it was just another teen movie. I later found out that it was a werewolf movie, which is one of my preferred themes in horror (there aren't that many good ones out there) and I therefore ended up watching it. IT BLEW ME AWAY!!! This is a great movie with all the right elements: great story, great effects, a lot of blood for those who like gore and good acting. If you're a fan of horror and especially werewolves, DO NOT miss this movie.
If you decide to buy the movie instead of renting it, buy the special collector's (Canadian) edition. It includes a lot of extra features that are not available on the regular edition. Ginger Snaps II is also available on DVD and is just as great as this movie. Ginger Snaps III (aka Ginger Snaps Back or Ginger Snaps: The Beginning) is being released on DVD in Canada in August 2004 and in US in September.
Not your typical Werewolf movie
I just saw this film and it ROCKED! Basically, it's sort of the run-of-the-mill horror film about two sisters, one of whom becomes infected with a werewolf virus. But it takes the genre to a new level.
A lot of people have compared this film to "Heathers" for its similar treatment of suburban teenage angst. Fair enough, but what makes this movie special is the way it works the werewolf archetype into a metaphor for female sexuality. Ginger (the werewolf) and her sister Brigitte are 16 and 15, but neither has begun menstrating. This delay makes for a powerful onset when the "female curse" (the film's term) combines with the werewolf virus. Transformation is always popular with adolescent boys (pokemon, ninja turtles, transformers, gobots etc.) and hollywood monsters have always been used for metaphors for human experiences and stages and (werewolf: our animal nature; vampires: death and disease; mummies: resurrection; frankenstein: God and parenting) This is the first film that has encompassed both transformation and monsterhood and applied it distintively to women.
Additionally, this film should be credited with its intelligent handling of drug use. Without glorifying drugs, Ginger Snaps depicts one of the supporting characters as a pharmalogically wise and sympathetic drug dealer. His character brings out a more complex view of drugs (appropriate when they are not divorced from their spiritual and medical significance) in a scene that looks a lot like heroin preparation.
The two main actors, Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle, have great chemistry and pull off the very difficult job of delivering Buffy/Heathers/Scream/Jawbreaker type comedic lines without breaking the seriously frightening mood the film creates.
One of the best!
This is one of the BEST werewolf films EVER made. It's "curse" is brilliant, its about a girl just reaching "womanhood" let alone "werewolfhood". The film taps both in a brilliant way. However I would suggest trying to find the canadian version on ebay etc as it is widescreen etc and has ALOT of bonus features not presented here.