Ginger Snaps

Comparatively speaking, there haven’t been that many werewolf movies made… and there have been far fewer GOOD werewolf movies made. So when I saw the first trailer for Ginger Snaps back around 2000, and it looked incredibly awesomely promising, I felt like howling at the moon. (The trailer below is not that trailer, but its a pretty good one). Being a werewolf fan, I couldn’t wait for it to release in the US so I bought a bootlegged VHS advance copy. That’s right. I did. Snivel and whine all you want, but it wasn’t available from one market when I needed it, so I bought it from another market that had it. You may call it piracy, but I call it “capitalism” and “fair trade”. If its called capitalism and fair trade when the corporations do it, then its capitalism and fair trade when I do it.

Anyways, to get back to the movie, it satisfied my ravenous werewolf hunger, and then some. The writing is great with witty banter and some great one liners and the actors deliver it with wry and smart believability. The film goes straight for jugular, but it also goes for the brain and the heart. It is far more layered and rich than most movies ever achieve. While it focuses on the intensely personal relationship between the two sisters and their struggle to deal with unfortunate and horrific events, it manages to comment on the societal and sexual issues of puberty and growing up while throwing in some nice scary werewolf chills.

I would go as far as to say that Ginger Snaps is in the top five werewolf movies of all time, along with The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, and a couple others that seem to change every now and then but include Dog Soldiers, The Company of Wolves, Ginger Snaps : Unleashed (the sequel to Ginger Snaps), The Wolf Man, and the TV show Werewolf, (if I can sneak it in).

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