This movie always gets lost in the horror shuffle rather unfairly I feel. Unfortunately, I don’t remember this movie all too well, aside from knowing I have seen it a few times, and I liked it every time. By the way, we’re doing the full trilogy today. I gotta get my numbers up.
This movie starts off with a mom raking leaves and her small kid playing on the ground. She discovers that he found a dog’s paw. Upon inspecting, she sees her dog has been killed. The dog’s name was Baxter, just like in Anchorman.
So our 2 main girls are Ginger, played by Katherine Isabelle, who we already saw in American Mary, and then there is Brigitte, played by Emily Perkins who played the role of young Beverly in Stephen King’s IT. We’re in capable hands. Mimi Rogers is in this to. She was in an awesome episode of Tales From the Crypt with Kathy Ireland.
So Ginger and Brigitte are they outcast girls who are all depressed and smoke during gym class. They are creative, but kinda gothy too. Think the goth kids from South Park, only more depth. Oh, and they’re sisters. Brigitte, or B for short, is definitely the more extreme or the 2, and Ginger is the talker, willing to kick some ass when needed. Mom is, you guessed it, trying to be overly happy and pleasant because that’s how these characters are always portrayed. Mom is questioning Ginger about her pain at the dinner table, and mom obviously thinking it’s her period. Dad is none too pleased. Dad really wants a normal family but his wife believes in counseling. Why do so many people believe in counseling? I’ll never know. There are lots of dead dogs in this movie, like bloody, fucked-up dogs.
Uh oh, Ginger just got her period. More reason for complaining. Suddenly something attacks and drags Ginger away and B got knocked to the ground, and we hear growling. If you don’t know what this movie is about, well you should be getting a clue now. Ginger comes back running and screaming, and then gets dragged back. Yup, it’s a werewolf, or lycan for the pretentious assholes and Twilight and Underworld fans of this generation. Fuck both franchises. That could be something to tackle next year, like how Paranormal Activity was this year.
B helps Ginger back home, of course, parents are gone. She has some claw marks on her shoulder. She’s stopped bleeding and is already healing. This is where I am gonna kick back and relax some, I hope, unless some cool shit happens.
Some dude has talked Ginger into smoking some weed, to take the edge off. Ginger is now sprouting hair from where the claw wounds are. Lots of period talk. Why the fuck did I like this movie so much again? God damn. Poor dad, he has to hear too much of this stuff at the dinner table. Ginger is now being a pissed off bitch trying to deal with this stuff while B is trying her best to be supportive, but really getting a tongue lashing. Ginger is blossoming into a damn fine looking chick that the high school boys are noticing. B obviously feels left out. Ginger appears to have a boyfriend even.
The dude that ran over the werewolf finally caught up with B again, to try to figure out what he hit. Keep using the word, lycanthrope. Well hello, Ginger’s ass in panties….and she has a tail starting to grow. She may or may not have been legal, so I will save the perverted dialogue. Ginger is turning into quite the little whooooore. B is investigating what in the blue hell is going on. Bullshit, this guy is telling Ginger to slow down a bit in a makeout session in his car. No teenage boy would be like, Woah, hey slow down here. I’m not sure if I wanna get a piece of ass so quickly. Ginger mauled him in the backseat. Her spine got all bumpy and well she’s all bloody now. Ginger killed Norman, the dog. She fucked the guy, didn’t kill him though. And she is back in her undies. B is gonna pierce Ginger’s belly button, and that went about as well as expected. I still don’t get the full appeal of belly rings.
B has to help tape Ginger’s tail down. Didn’t I say that I was gonna relax and not type so damn much? Am I conditioned to do this now? This guy helping B apparently is a guy the hot chick/bully bitch finds attractive. Hot chick was rough with B during a field hockey game. And then Ginger snapped…..wait, that’s the name of the fucking movie. She pummeled that bitch. So Ginger’s sexual conquest now is bleeding from the dick and pissing out blood. Pissing out blood is never a good time. I do enjoy the guy, I think his name is Sam, the one that talks to B. I just saw a nipple in a skin magazine. I am not going to count it, too brief, and not like an actual person in the film. I do have standards after all. Imagine that! Hot chick’s name is Trina. Trina came by, started running her mouth, Ginger got aggressive, and then Trina slipped and fell and knocked herself out, I think killing her. They put Trina in the freezer. This whole scene was pretty funny. I think Jason is the one that had sex with Ginger, who is experiencing symptoms too.
Once again, I got interrupted numerous times. This is just not my day to focus on movies. I’m not mad at anybody, some of the interruptions were welcome, others were not. So to be honest, I wasn’t hooked on this movie like I should have been. With that being said, let’s wrap this up.
Overall, this movie still holds up amazingly well. I know some dudes may dislike all of the talks about menstruation and shit like that, and even for me, at times it was a little much, but hey, you ladies go through it, it sucks, I empathize with you. It’s just like 2 dudes making out. I am fine watching 2 guys kiss, whatever, that’s cool. I’m just put off watching them makeout. And I’m usually put off when a man and a woman make out too. 2 girls….that’s still awesome and probably always will be by and large. Point is, I can see why some people wouldn’t like it. If you stay focused, you can start seeing all of the underlying themes going on here. This is not your average mindless walk in the park werewolf flick. It says a lot about teenage girls, teenagers in general, perceptions of how adults view them. Things were ramped up, but there was a lot there. If you remove all of that, this movie really tells a fabulous story, while mostly keeping it real. The gore was excellent, the acting was pretty good, B was made to look like an average teenage chick, and that was sooo refreshing to me. I am sick of seeing high school movies where not a single person is average or ugly or flawed. The ending, it’s very well done, a little harrowing, but that’s the way this movie had to end. I’m going to give this a 7.2 as I really feel it is executed damn near perfectly for 80-90% of it, and that really counts.
Final Rating: 7.2
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