Movie Review - Ginger Snaps

So weird it's excellent! This starts out as the dark tale of 2 sisters obsessed with death and dying young. They are the weirdo's, the outcasts. So right off the bat you can tell who this film is meant to appeal to. Made by Lions Gate Films (The same people who bought you Saw) this is a very dark but quite well observed and at times very funny film. Two teenage girls struggle through school and life in general. At first they seem to live alone in a very weird neighborhood where dogs keep getting killed.

We see the girls at school where they are shown to be general outcasts, Goths, freaks, unpopular. They are 15 & 16 but neither have started their periods, a fact that will prove to be very important later in the film. This film looks like a cross between American Werewolf In London and Carrie. The actual werewolf itself looked like the creature from Dog Soldiers. Ginger is attacked by an unknown creature but after not bleeding much, then starting her period it's suddenly obvious that the creature was a werewolf but the legends aren't all true.

The silver thing seems to calm Ginger down for a short time but the werewolf that bit and infected her was easily killed when hit by a speeding van. This film follows Ginger as she enters womanhood, dating boys (infecting one by having unprotected sex with him) and trying drugs and parties. As she becomes more infected the downward spiral seems to be inevitable that she will become the wolf and go on a killing spree.

Luckily for Ginger her major facial transformation happens on Halloween so she isn't noticed. Ginger's mum keeps her daughters from danger and her sister does discover a cure. She cures the boy Ginger had infected. There is no real ending as Ginger/wolf is killed by her sister and we know the sister is infected and has the cure in her hand but we never see her take it. If you like weird films, films about unusual people or horror in general this is well worth a look.