Ginger Snaps: CoD (For all you Yanks out there)

Another question. Are werwolf movies intrinsically difficult to do, considering the beast within subtext pushes audience identification away.

As for Ginger Snaps phenomenal confluence of menstruation mythology, lycanthropy and b-movie schlock. Extremely intelligent and heartbreaking, I thought, about growing into someone you don't want to, who you shouldn't want to, and then eventually the personality-graft takes and whammo!, there's no longer any inside and outside, no Ginger and werewolf, just werewolf.

I have fallen in full love with Emily Perkins (the little sister) too and can we keep saying her name so we can maybe summon her.

Possibly half an hour too long. It has this weird sub-Hollywood look to it too. Like a TV movie look - which, I suppose, would also bring on the B-movie refs.

I think, just to pick up on what I said a moment ago, that Ginger Snaps overrides this 'beast within' subtext by placing the beast as the endpoint of the transmogrification: the final iteration: thus when we are at beast stage we've already lost Ginger. So there's no resolve where the moon normally subsides - the only resolve is in the final mutation or the final antidoting of Ginger. There are two characters fighting for the one space which isn't the same as most werewolf movies where normally we do eventually get the human back.

This is why I thought it was a heartbreaking movie about inexorable change. And not necessarily about growing up either, but about growing out.

nawt whawt he said.

the opening credits sequence is brilliant.

I'm watching this again. what watch? it's 2 watch.

the bit near the end where the good guy has been mauled by ginger and he sits w. his back to the hardboard wall panting heavily, running out of life, is a v. obvious references to a famous scene but I can't remember from what film. the scene has a man, with his back to a wall, panting heavily and slowly running... oh actually it's just come to me, it's a ref. to the scene in terminator 2 where the guy who invented cyberdine is left in the building holding the pin for the explosives and he's slowly running out of breath and when he stops breathing KABLOOEY.

Still have no idea how Ginger Snaps 3 manages to be a prequel set in the 19th century starring the sisters.