A film that I have been meaning to see for a long time, John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps is a fun werewolf flick which essentially uses the transformation of a young girl into a werewolf as a metaphor for puberty. The film follows two teenage girls who are goth/miscasts at school. When one of them is bitten by a werewolf creature and starts to slowly transform, the film uses this slow transformation as a way to comment on issues that many young people face as they deal with being an outcast and the peer pressure of conformity which is extremely prevalent in grade school. Ginger Snaps is almost the ideal film in the Feminist Horror Genre, if such a thing exists, focusing on two female characters and specifically targeting the pressures that exist for any teenage woman. Its surprisingly well crafted with some very nice use of canted angles and slow-pans, which at times do create a rather frightening and foreboding atmosphere. The violence and special effects are b-movie quality but are masked well, being an enjoyable horror film that never goes light on gore. John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps isnt perfect but its definitely entertaining and rather compelling for this type of film, which could be contributed to the performances of both Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle.
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