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Ginger Snaps

John FAWCETT

Canada2000 110min 35mm Color Korean Premiere

Synopsis

Two girls adhere to death compulsively. Bridget, 15, and Ginger, 16, are close friends who are almost like sisters. On the day Ginger has her first period, they have a ceremony. They are attacked by a monster. Ginger's scar seems magical, but hair starts to grow at the scar and a tail also grows under her itch bone. Ginger doesn't know how to do and fumes at Bridget's questions. Bridget thinks that she is turning into a werewolf. Ginger starts getting aggressive. Bridget doesn't say anything about Ginger to anyone. She searches for a method to rescue Ginger. She goes to Sam, who is a supplier of marijuana and also an amateur botanist. Ginger feels a sense of betrayal and gets angry with her. In trying to help Ginger, she becomes an accomplice. The werewolf was a man before this time. This film shows the similarities between a girl who has her first period and a common girl who is changed into a werewolf. Indifferent parents and a teacher cannot solve this problem. This is a film for teenagers. This film's difference is that a teenage horror movie is mixed with a werewolf, which is a classical horror movie material. The film won a Canada award at the Toronto Film Festival.

Diretor

John FAWCETT

Fawcett made his feature film debut in 1996 with The Boy's Club, a dark adolescent drama starring Chris Penn (Reservoir Dogs, Short Cuts). Released theatrically by Alliance Communications, Variety called  The Boy's Clubz 'an intense, involving drama' and praised Fawcett for investing the film with 'a tough realistic sensibility that sets this pic apart from the pack'(May 27/96). Ginger Snaps is Fawcet's second feature film.