Ginger
Snaps
(DEJ) Not Rated
Release Date - May 4, 2001
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Starring:
Emily Perkins, Kristopher Lemche,
Danielle Hampton, John Bourgeois, Peter Keleghan
Directed by: John Fawcett
Produced by: Steve Hoban, Karen Lee Hall, Steven Hoban
Written by: Karen Walton
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Insomnia and
its surprising performance by Katharine Isabelle inspired
me to watch John Fawcett and Karen Walton’s
Ginger Snaps, an (EEK!) Canadian movie that had quite
a following at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival and is scheduled
for one more showing on Cinemax (tonight, 8p eastern).
This film deserved better.
The movie sets up the perfect ending and then disintegrates
in its final minutes, which is a shame, but no reason for
this film not to fly. Maybe Columbine made domestic distributors
nervous. But Ginger
Snaps is about as close to a new millennium Heathers
as anyone has gotten. This film makes Jawbreaker, which wants
to be about something but can’t keep itself from exploiting
its exploiters, look like a softball.
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