Ginger Snaps

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“Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.”

Maybe it’s because I felt like a bit of an outcast during my teen years but this movie taps into some deep angst and really gets you to connect with the main characters.

This movie highlights giving into those animal instincts (pun intended) and learning to be exactly who you are meant to be. It also does a neat trick and ties in sexual urges right up there with homicidal tendencies.

Time can make people grow apart but these two sisters may be growing apart in more ways than one. They are their own little world, bonded together in gloom and doom. Then, on the same day she gets her first period, Ginger is bitten by a lycanthrope.

Not only are there physical changes, but the mental ones start to shove a wedge between them. Bridgette sees out how to find possible cures on the down low while dodging regular life such as their eerily chipper suburban mom who keeps magazine articles to be a better parent and has to keep up a smile as she takes her husband to marriage counseling.

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There are so many perfect quotable lines that you could almost watch just for that. Including at one point when the mother is telling her daughter that they’ll just let the house fill up with gas and light a match. Start fresh. (Da fuq?)

In the end, Bridgette has to decide whether to try and save Ginger or realize that the thing she has become is murderous and self destructive.

Please see this movie. I can’t even put it all into words.