Review of Ginger Snaps (2000) by Thomas A — 02 Nov 2009

This became my favorite werewolf movie immediately after seeing it for the very first time. Ginger (Katherine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins) are sisters and are often rationalized as outcasts for their morbid imagination and obsessive ideas about death.

Ginger and Brigitte are practical inseparable until Ginger, the oldest of the two, finally hits puberty. This is something Ginger views as really being a curse up until she gets bit by a mysterious creature in the night.

With the events that happened to Ginger that night still remaining questionable, Brigitte strives for a way to keep Ginger's unpredictable behavior under wraps... and that tail she grew over night! I think what I love most about this movie are the characters.

I find the reblious nature of Ginger and Brigitte to be appealing especially when they still have their ever so strong woven bond while they're continually butting heads. This is a modern told tale of werewolves which upon hearing such an idea I thought it wouldn't work--I was wrong!