GazerRise Fantastic!

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Morbius Fitzgerald If anyone has read my reviews in whole, or read my lists, you'd probably latch onto the fact that I'm a pretty big Ginger Snaps fan. Its my 2nd favourite film of all time and it shaped a lot of characteristics in who I am today. So I decided, this Halloween, since it had been years since I saw this and "Ginger Snaps Back" that I'd marathon the films and...it definitely shows off the problems between films. Is that fair? For this film, yes. Its a direct continuation of the first film and thus, the problems should not have been AS prominent as they are here.Now if you want to know both sequels suffer from 3 common problems - problems that could've been avoided had they just waited between sequels as opposed to farting them both out at the same time in the hopes of making money off their film that had just gained a cult status. The problems are that, firstly, both films are boring, a lot of that has to do with scripting and character development but one of the things that makes sure both films aren't interesting is the second problem, they change the werewolf mythology! This is a sign these movies pretty much doomed themselves. This film changed the metaphor so instead of it being about puberty, its about drug addiction...while it takes place in a drug rehabilitation clinic! Now imagine, if you will, a junkie that had just joined said clinic, as soon as her drugs were taken away, she becomes overly violent and overly sexual while still trying to make her case that she's "better now". NOW imagine that due to the nature of her imprisonment, she starts talking to thin air thats supposed to be the apparition of her dead sister? But, yeah, what they did here was better! The third problem is the characters are all idiots. Ghost taunts Brigitte and starts asking her questions about werewolfism that, quite frankly, would make people more hostile towards her as opposed to working with her (I'm talking about the "when you close your eyes is it hell you see?") and Brigitte...trusts...her. Mind you, everyone being stupid is something I'd extend to the medical staff - Alice, the head of the clinic, just takes Brigitte OFF the monkshood, something that a line of dialogue actually openly admits is poison, and never once considers withdrawal? The psychologists staff in a Nightmare On Elm Street 3 could be Freud compared to these idiots!Okay, so, lets begin analysing, the film takes place a couple of years after the first, Brigitte is on the run from this rogue werewolf that wants to have sex with her and despite the fact they claim Monkshood is just a regressor that just holds the werewolfism at bay, it is NOT Jason McCarthy from the first film who was last seen in the film, being forced to take the drug at the hands of Brigitte - the people behind this outright stated that. After an attack by this werewolf, she wanders the streets after overdosing on monkshood only to be found in a drug rehabilitation clinic. She's mocked by some of the other inmates for "sucking at suicide" (because a DRUG ADDICT WOULD NEVER CONSIDER SUICIDE!...I'm sorry, what?) and is quickly deemed a trouble maker after she insists on having her monkshood back. Then there are scenes where she...befriends a girl there called Ghost and then...probably the most embarrassing scene in the entire series takes place, a scene that was meant to show her "sexual awakening" to tear everything to pieces. In the first film, this was shown with Ginger becoming a sexual teen and trying to have sex with Jason only to...sort of rape him and then she killed a dog. In this film her sexual awakening takes place of a multiple person masturbation scene wherein one of the doctors there describes the sexual pleasure of "ripping flesh". No, you did NOT read that wrong.After Brigitte continues to descent into "wolf madness" she escapes with Ghost after also finding out that the werewolf from before is near. Then the film, quite frankly, just stops for a bit to pad out Ghost being a "surrogate sister" to Brigitte to replace Ginger. Considering the description of her I gave above, I'm not going to state how thats just dumb and move on.Brigitte then descends more into wolf mode and asks an orderly who exchanges drugs with the girls there for sexual favours for her monkshood back...never ONCE taking into account she KNOWS where to but it (described in this film as "any craft store") and she SAW SAM MAKE IT IN THE FIRST FILM! And after that goes wrong, she decides to face the wolf that had been stalking her and at this point I realized something about that plot point - it was only in the film to make it more interesting. There is no dramatic weight because its not Jason McCarthy and we're never told who the wolf is or HOW it was made! Now, to a point I DID fix this with a fan fiction I wrote years ago but...that doesn't matter! I shouldn't need to write fan fiction to "fix" the bare bones of character development that was just never given in this film.So it turns out Ghost, who taunted Brigitte for the first quarter of the film, couldn't be trusted! Brigitte tries to attack her, the wolf runs in, Alice is killed by Ghost (with all the emotional impact of finding out you just ran out of popcorn) and the film ends with Brigitte being locked up in Ghost's basement to kill again.Okay, this film had some pretty cool ideas and the plot DOES manage to open up the wiggle room for the sequel that the first film, I thought, didn't really need but the problem is none of that really goes anywhere, simply, it just doesn't work.

chaos-rampant 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.

Leofwine_draca 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.

Luvsthebrits This movie was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. I didn't know there was a first one so I just watched this one and completely loved it. I will totally watch the first one now. The movie was non stop action and insane moments. I was literally on the edge of my seat the whole time. There were definitely a lot of cringe moments like when she slit her arm at the beginning, when she was injecting herself and when she got her leg stuck in the door and the when BethAnn gets killed at the end. I was extremely impressed at the storyline and the acting. One of the greatest movies I have seen on this chanel by far. Definitely will recommend this movie to friends and family, loves it!!!!