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Ginger Snaps (2001)

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Reviews Counted:47

Fresh:42

Rotten:5

Average Rating:7.4/10

Consensus: The strong female cast and biting satire of teenage life makes Ginger Snaps far more memorable than your average werewolf movie -- or teen flick.

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) are unusual sisters. For a school project they take pictures of each other in various suicide poses that look frighteningly realistic. No... Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) are unusual sisters. For a school project they take pictures of each other in various suicide poses that look frighteningly realistic. No other students will talk to them. Ginger is almost sixteen, Brigitte a year younger, but they are in the same classes, and neither of them has gotten her period yet. They do virtually everything together--in fact, their motto is "Together Forever"--until one night Ginger gets attacked by the Beast of Bailey Downs, which previously had been killing and eviscerating dogs. And Ginger then begins to change.... John Fawcett's debut feature film is everything a good horror film should be--creepy, weird, oddly funny, sexy, and very bloody, with its conclusion taking place on Halloween night. Michael Shields's moody score lofts above every scene like dark shadows about to envelop the characters. Perkins and Isabelle are outstanding as the two morbid Fitzgerald sisters with a taste for death. This independent Canadian production also stars Mimi Rogers as the mother who can't wait for her daughters to menstruate. [More]

Starring: Emily Perkins, Mimi Rogers, Katherine Isabelle, Kristopher Lemche

Starring: Emily Perkins, Mimi Rogers, Katherine Isabelle, Kristopher Lemche, Jesse Moss, Danielle Hampton, John Bourgeois, Peter Keleghan, Christopher Redman

Director: John Fawcett

Director: John Fawcett
Story: Karen Walton, John Fawcett
Producer: Steve Hoban, Karen Lee Hall
Composer: Michael Shields

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Oct 23, 2001

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10/18/08
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Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
10/18/08
Reel.com

A stunning teen angst/werewolf film from 2001, this was the best lycanthrope movie since An American Werewolf in London.

Full Review Source: ESplatter | comment Comment
06/18/08
Lucius Gore
Lucius Gore
ESplatter

Successfully operates on dual levels -- as a horror movie and as a study of two sisters.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
02/14/08
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

The movie is much at its best when dealing merely with suspicions, rather than when later laying out the lycanthropy and laying on the gore.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
09/24/07
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

At last a horror film with real bite.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
09/24/07
Channel 4 Film

A quietly subversive my-sister-is-turning-into-a-werewolf movie that doesn't wimp out at the end.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/24/07
Derek Elley
Derek Elley
Variety
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This isn't just a good horror movie, it's a good movie. Period.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out

Ginger Snaps is a satisfying return to mythology, cheesy gore and fear for the horror film.

Full Review Source: Movie Views | comment Comment
01/30/04
Ryan Cracknell
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views

Ginger Snaps is about as close to a new millennium Heathers as anyone has gotten.

Full Review Source: Hot Button | comment Comment
01/07/03
David Poland
David Poland
Hot Button

It's altogether devilishly cunning.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
12/17/02
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
rec.arts.movies.reviews

A black comedy that nonetheless manages to tap into the sense of alienation and unfocused rage so prevalent in today's kids.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Merle Bertrand
Merle Bertrand
Film Threat

Despite the problems this plays as one of the better ones of the past couple years.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Ross Williams
Ross Williams
Film Threat

...winds up wallowing in its own detached ironic humour.

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
11/12/02
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Enjoyable and effective teen werewolf movie with some refreshingly new ideas and lashings of gore.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
10/30/02
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

There's a nice undercurrent of black humor that mines absurdities from an adolescent perspective, but this is no Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
10/18/02
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

This is the creepiest, most authentic feeling, smartest horror flick in a long time.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment 1 Comment
09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

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06/15/02
Reel.com

On its surface, Ginger Snaps is a werewolf movie, but what's refreshing is the clever satire at its core.

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06/05/02
Barbara Goslawski
Barbara Goslawski
Boxoffice Magazine
 
 
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