BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

jenlabmush Everyone has that one movie to them. That one that they could watch over and over again and never grow tired of it. For some, it's the original Star Wars Trilogy, shoot, I knew a person, for her, it was Rent, but for me, it's Ginger Snaps. First saw it, thanks to my dad working at Blockbuster at the time, was given a screener of it prior to it's release, and truly loved the movie from then on. And when I say can watch it over and over again, not get tired, I kid you not, one time, put the DVD on loop and had it play 24/7 for the longest time. Tonight, thanks to Shout Factory, watched it on Blu Ray, and truly loved that!!! Now, Shout, let's get to work on releasing the other two in the series on Blu Ray. OK? lol

Kezia Cole It's possible I'm biased, but I've never managed to make it all the way through this movie in one sitting. I just get so bored. Ginger Snaps is often feted as a smart, slick, witty teen drama/horror/comedy hybrid, using werewolf movie tropes as a metaphor for puberty, loss of innocence, and a character study of two sisters growing apart. It does have some snappy lines and genuinely funny moments, such as Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) consulting the supermarket's 'feminine hygiene' aisle as Ginger's lycanthropic changes blur with the clunky plot point of her first period, but for me those are also the scenes that highlight the movie's weakness.For my taste, the preoccupation with Ginger's burgeoning womanhood - her menstruation, her 'wolfishness' portrayed through aggressive sexuality (including flipping the roles on a pushy boy who has the nerve to ask her "who's the guy here?" shortly before she pins him down and bites through his chest), pleasure- seeking, and short-tempered moodiness - are a set of clichés that never feel as clever or deep as they seem to think they are. The scene in which Ginger compares blood lust to the joy of masturbation never fails to make me cringe. It doesn't help that writer/co-story writer Karen Fawcett's dialogue sounds less like genuine teen-speak than the esprit d'escalier of a 35 year old remembering high school. Maybe it's because Brigitte and Ginger are so hard to identify with, being cast so firmly as outsiders from the start, with their shared obsession with death, a la Harold and Maude. Emily Perkins' performance - swaddled in baggy clothes, and hiding behind a forest of uncombed hair - is whole- heartedly committed to a vision of teen awkwardness, but the excessive wild-eyed staring overwhelms any sense of nuance or character development which could have brought the story some genuine depth in its first two thirds, and adds to the feeling of playing scenes for laughs instead of balancing dark humour with real emotion.The movie's practical effects are unusual, and I don't have a problem with that, though it seems to put off a lot of horror fans, and the lycanthropy is not the conventional kind. Most of the liberally splattered gore scenes are effected with high speed cuts and crunchy sound effects rather than a more psychological approach, which feels like an odd choice given the movie's attempts at locating itself so firmly inside the sisters' shared bond. Ultimately, Ginger Snaps may be many people's idea of a sharply comic modern(ish) take on horror movies - and particularly the role of women in horror - and if it speaks to you like that then great; such is the power of representation in movies. Unfortunately, for me it feels severely dated, clunky, and unrelatable, and it's easy to see the excitement about the movie as chronic over-hyping. If you go in expecting a teen drama with naked-molerat-werewolves and a somewhat second-wave feminist message, you might be pleasantly surprised, but if you remember the 90s trope of being too cool to take anything seriously and found it annoying then, you may want to give this movie a wide berth.Maybe there'll be a reboot one of these days to smooth off the rough edges from a potentially promising idea?

Marcus James It was not a ground breaking movie, nor a bad movie by any stretch. A lot of reviews here attempt to overthink the plot and state that its yet another tweeny horror movie, but it wasn't. There is no retarded teenage love story in this movie nor any nudity nor a bunch of topless guys. There are no cheap gimmics in this movie designed to draw teens. It is a straight forward drama about two sisters and how they try to cope with one turning to a werewolf. The quality of the film is definitely limited, this was not a big budget flick but at the same, the low budget and lack of CGI really give it a very natural eerie feel similar to how old horror movies used to be. The only exception is the werewolf itself which looks pretty 80s (in a bad way) but was not really in the movie for very long any way. I always felt like older horror movies were much more convincing due to narrower camera perspectives (smaller resolutions and angles) and use of imagination over CGI and special effects. Todays horror is very bad and has mostly devolved to formulaic snore fests requiring over the top violence and gore (a la Saw or Hostel) or cheap surprise scares which stop working once a person gets older. This was a nice change of pace. I liked it and I give is a 6, or 1 point above average. I will be watching the next two movies soon.

GL84 Living together in a small town, two sisters find the creature hunting them down is one of them who got turned into a werewolf and must find a way to contain the ravenous beast within before more of their friends are killed.Frankly this one turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment. The film's main problem here is also one of its best features in the connection between the onset of woman-hood with the curse of lycanthropy which is the big guise in this one. It associates some of the normal conditions of burgeoning femininity as the potential signs of lycanthropy, from the introduction of the feminine status, their biology starting to give away their conditions and the sudden outburst of aggressive behavior seems to be all consistent with the changes found in this situation, and the trade-off with the lycanthropy traits is something that's fun and unique to this one. That said, none of these are really all that enjoyable as they take the focus off the horror to such an extent that the film instead paces along quite dreadfully by remaining stuck with these teen-angst drama scenes that are just not that exciting. The scenes of the two girls lamenting their high-school situation, how they're concerned with that project of life-like death photographs of themselves or the utterly bland and boring school-yard meandering are not that exciting and really make it hard to care all that much about the girls or their condition in the first half and really makes it hard to buy into this one as a horror movie at times. Thankfully, what saves this one is the film's fleeting horror moments as there's numerous pretty well-timed scares and suspense in here which really brings this one up considerably. The initial playground attack is simply stellar with the hairy beasts' rapid movements an inhuman growling giving the impression of something running around that's hidden enough to make it a mystery about its identity while offering plenty of suspenseful tactics of them chasing off into the woods. The later attacks offer up plenty of gruesome attacks alongside some rather fun times here with the attacks at school on the personnel, the party scenes are a lot of fun with the seduction coming off rather nicely before the initial transformation scene and the big one that works well here is the finale at the house. Finally letting the werewolf loose, getting some impressive stalking as she follows the blood trail through into the basement and some fantastic action all together for a spectacular scene that serves as the highlight here. Lastly, the design for the wolf is a bit more modern, with a large head, lean body that has more wolf-like qualities than most previous werewolf designs yet still retains the vicious appearance and attitude that make it something to be feared and respected while looking somewhat original here as well. These here are the film's overall positives.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, drug use, several scenes of animal violence and detailed discussions and events about puberty.