
Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cur... (Full plot summary below)
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Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it isn't just local dogs that begin to die.
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| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesSuccessfully operates on dual levels -- as a horror movie and as a study of two sisters. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.A remarkable and excellent werewolf thriller that's equal parts creepy, funny, and tragic. |
| Bryant Frazer's Deep FocusBryant FrazerThe funniest werewolf movie since "An American Werewolf in London" and the darkest high-school movie since "Heathers." |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestThis is the creepiest, most authentic feeling, smartest horror flick in a long time. |
| Electric SheepEleanor McKeownA witty and intelligent exploration of what it means to become and live as a woman in middle-class suburbia. |
| AV ClubScott TobiasA smart, resourceful, and wickedly funny teen-horror film that reinvents the werewolf myth as a potent metaphor for pubescent angst and humiliation. |
| UK CriticIan Waldron-MantganiReminded me of the early work of David Cronenberg |
| Jam! MoviesBob ThompsonA hootin' howler this feature, another in the series of movies mixing tee-hees with the terrors. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesThe wickedly effective performances by the two leads turn what would otherwise be a forgettable, low-budget movie into an intriguing little tale of the macabre. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanGinger Snaps starts out so well that its terrible last half hour feels insulting. |