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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.
Release : | 2004 |
Rating : | 6.4 |
Studio : | Copperheart Entertainment, 49th Parallel Films, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Emily Perkins Tatiana Maslany Katharine Isabelle Brendan Fletcher Janet Kidder |
Genre : | Drama Horror |
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Memorable, crazy movie
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
I thought that this was an excellent sequel. It had its moments of comedy and a few moments of fear. The story was interesting and diverse and especially towards the end it managed to evolve slightly into something unexpected. There were moments where it was predictable although the meanders at the end were totally not foreseen. My only gripe would be that Ginger died at the end of the last film and so was not properly in this one. I loved the Ginger character in the last film and she was missed. This is a good sequel although like most sequels it fails to surpass the original.
The Ginger films are interesting cases in recent horror I think; for approximately 2/3rds of their duration we get horror reassembled from tradition to address teenage angst, the vogue is to call this post-modern, but in doing so we also get worthwhile sketches about the conditions that give rise to horror in the first place.It has always been the anguished mind spinning fears and projecting outside, this is important to be able to note in a good horror. It was only later that these things were codified, systematized in the form of a tradition about vampires or werewolves. So it is always a step in the right direction for me when a movie treats monsters beneath the literal level, questions their formation, penetrates, dismantles.In the first Ginger film horror was the woman suddenly awakened inside the teenage body, awakened by blood. Pubescent anxieties sprung from this, in the form of a baffling newfound lust for sex and blood. This was given to us as a werewolf film, with a rampage that was twisted around; the hormonal beast gave her a renewed thirst for life, but which she could not quench without destroying.This second one is potentially more complex stuff, a feverish fantasy enacted in the space between two unreliable eyes.One is the meek sister who had to suddenly grow up and assume responsibility with the events of the first film. She has developed an addiction to the serum she takes against the werewolf virus. The idea is that all the time we may be watching any young girl struggling with a drug problem. So pubescent anxieties of a damaged mind this time fueled by the pains of rehab; but again imagined as a werewolf film around her, with the beast out to mate with her.Her sister from the first film is the ghost friend, hallucinated, obviously a nod to American Werewolf in London.The other unreliable eye is a girl in the same rehab center tending to a badly burned grandmother, a really impressionable girl we learn. Her only getaway is a comic-book about werewolves, a fiction she uses to assert reality and assist the other.Her name none too subtly is Ghost, but a ghost eye that is used in a very smart way. We are led to believe she was behind her grandmother's accident, but which is later dispelled as only a mundane household mishap, a bedtime cigarette. So on top of these two, it's our eye that also becomes unreliable, impressionable, prone to imagine horror; all told it's a pretty good device really, lowering us in the level where all the werewolf stuff would work as our own fantasy.But as with the first film, there is a last third that completely bangles the structure. As it turns out, our eye was never impressionable. We were right to imagine horror. The rational rehab director shows up at just the right time to realize that there truly are ghastly things going bump in the dark. Everything the film had dismantled so far, however hastily, is now pandered to.I suppose that how much the viewer will be satisfied by the finale of these films is directly proportional to how much straightforward blood-drenched action he expects from horror. I leave this last part to be enjoyed by traditional horror fans and keep what came before.
This follow up to the cult werewolf original is about on par with the first film. With her werewolf sister dead and herself infected by the curse, teen Brigitte is checked into a mental asylum where her fellow inmates turn out to be just as odd as she herself is. With group masturbation sessions on the schedule and another werewolf roaming the grounds, she soon realises that her stay at the asylum is going to be anything but uneventful.The film's tone is weird throughout. The scriptwriters take a delight in presenting kooky characters, and there's a certain Lynchian atmosphere to the proceedings. Emily Perkins is once again an unusual, slightly ethereal lead, but Katharine Isabelle's scenes as a ghost don't really work. The film's more interesting when it focuses on the supporting cast, from the young blonde girl Ghost caring for her badly burned relative to the sleazy staff members.GINGER SNAPS: UNLEASHED incorporates a number of different genres into its story. It's full of teen angst to begin with, and then becomes an asylum flick with all the oddness you'd expect. The addiction thread remains strong and then, finally, it reveals itself as a monster movie at the climax, although that's where it's weakest; it works better earlier on, dealing with stuff that isn't by now way too familiar from dozens of other similar films.
I have yet to see the first Ginger snap or any other Ginger snaps movies in the series.I saw this when it came on TV once, all i knew about this movie before I watched it, was that it had something to do with a werewolf.Brigitte seem to be haunted by her dead sister, who a was werewolf too and she will become too but she then takes a deadly second dose of monkshood, which would stop her of changing into werewolf. Jeremy with her library books at her door and he see that she has taken drugs and then is about to take her to the hospital but is attacked.After that She wakes up in rehab clinic for drug abusing girls. she locked up and a little girls know about this and then helps her out to get more drugs to help her not to turn into a werewolf.This was really interesting werewolf movie, I didn't find IT boring, which i thought I would, but it was really entertaining movie,They had some really nasty bloody deaths in here too and i did like how the werewolf looked, it was little scary.The acting from the main girl was really good, the rest of cast was just okay but the little girl acting was really poor. I give this movie 7 out of 10