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Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed (2004)

Ginger Snaps II a.k.a. Ginger Snaps: Unleashed is a worthy sequel. We’re not merely talking about a new location and a couple of new characters either. This is a true sequel, the next step in a series with interesting twists on themes introduced previously and a completely different story.

After the events of the first film, Brigitte Fitzgerald (Emily Perkins) is on the run and using wolfsbane to prevent the transformation brought on by the werewolf curse. When her injections are confused for narcotics, she is sent to a rehabilitation clinic. Befriending a young girl named Ghost (Tatiana Maslany), Brigitte searches for a way to escape the facility before the werewolf on her trail catches up.

Katharine Isabelle returns as Ginger but she hasn’t been magically cured or brought back to life. She only appears in hallucinations and offers her sister only sardonic comments. This follow-up doesn't want to look backward, it wants to keep going forward. That first movie talked through metaphors about the alienation siblings can feel when one suddenly hits puberty. This time, we're talking about drug use and rehab. Brigitte is stuck in a secure location where she’s forced to deal with a creep that will smuggle her cure to her (Tyler, played by Eric Johnson). It’s a new kind of nightmare as she desperately tries to explain to everyone that she needs the syringes of purple liquid and that something dangerous is outside waiting to get her, but none of them believe her. Can you blame them when she cuts herself, was found overdosed in a snowbank, and goes on around impossible monsters?

With Ginger and Brigitte's dynamic gone, we’re given new characters to follow. Ghost is a lot of fun because she’s the one who believes our heroine and can circumvent all of security and staff. In terms of villainous characters, a werewolf that spends its time eating people isn’t much of a character, so we’re given a truly reprehensible foe in the form of Tyler. The rehab center and the staff also serve as unwilling villains in the story, as do the unwilling changes to Brigitte’s body.

Director Brett Sullivan and writer Megan Martin offer us something different but also retain what we liked from before. There's still plenty of humor to balance out the horror. The female-centered story offers well-developed characters with plenty of shades of grey to make them feel real - even the bad ones.

As a bonus, Unleashed features better special effects than the first and stands on its own remarkably well. You’d probably need someone to give you a brief synopsis of the first movie to get all the details, but for the most part, this picture is fairly self-contained.

I love a good werewolf movie but there aren't many of them because of their prohibitive need for intensive special effects and an overall lack of imagination in terms of their stories. This makes Ginger Snaps 2 a standout. Through clever storytelling, strong characters, and a great ending it even manages to work its way around the “money shot” of any lycanthrope story. Ginger Snaps is being more recognized as time goes on and the sequel deserves the same kind of attention. (On DVD, October 23, 2015)

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