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Ginger Snaps (2000)

Ginger Snaps is among the best werewolf movies ever made. This film takes the complex themes behind lycanthropy and uses them to their fullest potential in a story about the horrors of growing up that is alternatively funny and frightening.

Set in a small suburb that has recently seen a rash of dog killings, we find Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald (Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle). These misfit sisters are obsessed with death and repulsed by all the normals around them. When Ginger is bitten by a strange creature, she begins to change. Everyone else attributes the increased libido, hair growth, and behavioral changes to Ginger hitting puberty but Brigitte knows better.

With its connection between werewolfism and puberty, Ginger Snaps has hit a goldmine. A full moon comes around once a month; so does your period. Both concern your body changing without your control, both signify there's no going back to how things were before. In this film, the transformation is initially met with fear and misunderstanding but eventually embraced as part of the woman's identity. Sound familiar?

Though there are plenty of metaphors and allegories, it’s also the story of a young woman who begins transforming into a werewolf. People will get torn apart. But the story mostly centers around Brigitte looking out for her sister as she turns into a different person. The two already had a deceptively complex relationship before. It often felt like Ginger was more of a bully than a friend. In a way, this is the abusive relationship going even further. Ginger is turning into someone she wouldn't have approved of days ago but she can't stop. Not on her own.

There's more food for thought when we look at the side characters. Mimi Rogers as the mom seems ecstatic about her daughter beginning her transformation. It’s played mostly for comedy but look again and this time consider her last scene. She's not simply there to make you laugh. There’s a lot to be said about what happens to the one guy that keeps hitting on Ginger (Jesse Moss). Jason McCardy's fate is funny and says something about the difference between men coming of age and how differently society sees it than women's.

For several reasons, the theme of death comes back several times throughout the picture. It stars two teenage girls who are obsessed with death and romanticize suicide. Once Ginger is bitten, they’re forced to confront the idea seriously for the first time. Ginger isn't merely transforming into a killer, she could unleash a plague upon our world. What now?

This is a smart, layered story. The characters grow and reveal more about themselves as the events around them unfold. There are many funny sequences and the same amount will make you scream. If I have one criticism, it’s that there are times where it’s too smartly written, acted, and layered for its own good! Let me explain. This is a low-budget enterprise. Under $5 million, which means the big scene in any werewolf movie... is missing. The carcasses and gore look great but we don't have the big werewolf transformation/reveal. You're enjoying the movie so much it comes as a shock that all you get werewolf-wise... is THIS.

We don’t often get horror films of this caliber. Ginger Snaps has depth, scares, and some laughs. It offers everything you’d want to see in a horror film with ample blood and gore throughout and unsettling ideas. It might even unlock some profound conversations among teens and adults who watch it together. It’s got a few tiny issues in the special effects department, but we're talking minor stuff. Ginger Snaps is a cult film that deserves a much bigger fan base than it's gotten so far. (On Blu-ray, July 24, 2015)

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Today at http://psychodrivein.com 13 Eerie (2013) Katharine Isabelle plays Megan, the blonde who doe-eyes the teacher in the beginning, but as the zombies begin attacking, becomes an energetic tour-de-force, showing the most resilience and the most arc of any other character. --- Read more of Fred's review at the link in our profile! #13eerie #katharineisabelle #lowelldean #michaelshanks #brendanfahr #nickmoran #jessemoss #zombie #zombies https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NUhCBHd2I/?igshid=6n3g8bwayfda

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Extraterrestrial

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Deadly Intuition Part 3 – Final Destination 3 (2006)

In today's review, I deal with grief and premonitions of doom, as I attempt a #positive review of the 2006 sequel Final Destination 3 #TonyTodd #KrisLemche #AlexzJohnson #SamEaston #JesseMoss #GinaHolden #TexasBattle #MaryElizabethWinstead #RyanMerriman

The mid-point is often the most perilous place on the tight rope, most of the good and shocking ideas are behind you, yet the audiences want more. In 2006, death taunts another pseudo-lucky group of survivors’ while offering more of the same managed to include so much more In Final Destination 3.

This place is like a candy store for death!

When the graduating class of McKinley high school…

[bournehype]

The Overnighters

A film which most people thought was going to give a cultural view on the workers around fracking, was not that at all.

The Overnighters was a film about a pastor struggling to serve the Lord, continue his church and beat the press.  When people who couldn't find jobs in ND after traveling there, the pastor would take them in and house them, leading many of the towns people to anger and confusion as crime rates went up.  Many locals wanted the church to stop supporting all these men and families, yet the pastor continued.

Other than the fact that it wasn't why I sat down for the movie, it still told a good story and the film was well made.  

Until the last 15 minutes.  This went from the film I previously describe to being about all the secrets pastors have to keep to serve the lord, even if its keeping the fact that you're acting on homosexual tendencies.  Like a bomb that was dropped in the film, leaving me with a bitter taste for the movie because there was NO NEED WHAT-SO-EVER TO HAVE THE LAST 15 MINS OF THIS MOVIE.  It made the rest of the movie irrelevant.  And it made the pastor go from respectable to asshole in a flash.

Leaving the movie I only could ask myself "What the hell did I just sit through?"

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