Review of Ginger Snaps (2000) by Patric C — 10 Dec 2010
Ginger Snaps concerns a pair of Goth, death-obsessed teenage sisters who have refused any trace of femininity while simultaneously avoiding contact with all other teenagers except each other. Their aversion to femininity runs so deep that they have even forestalled the onset of menstruation.
However, after one of the pair (the hot one, as a group of hormone-enraged boys comments while watching the girls in P.E. class) gets her first period, she is immediately assaulted by a werewolf and slowly transforms into a super-hot, nymphomaniacal werewolf.
Like Teen Wolf, she begins to be popular and steadily cuts her sister out of her life. Ginger Snaps starts off as an original horror film with a slightly subversive, feminist slant and a sarcastic and satirical sense of humor.
For example, the sisters stage death scenes and take photographs of each other in various horrendous positions--the credit montage over these photos is brilliant. Unfortunately, Ginger Snaps becomes rather predictable as it goes along and undercuts much of the subversive wit that makes it so promising during its first half.
Still, it is a highly entertaining and original werewolf film that features loads of laughs as well as brutality.
This review of Ginger Snaps (2000) was written by Patric C on 10 Dec 2010.
Ginger Snaps has generally received positive reviews.
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