Review – Ginger Snaps

Not since Suzy McKee Charnas’s short story “Boobs” have the connections between female pubescence and lycanthropy been so cleverly explored. The plot of this odd little Canadian production is simple enough: a moody goth girl is bitten by a werewolf shortly after her first period starts, and throughout the rest of the movie she and her sister struggle with all the changes poor Ginger undergoes. Especially for a teen-intensive rubber monster movie, this one’s not half bad. If not for the genuinely excessive pet death (especially the slaughtered dog that leads the show), this outing would have gotten a slightly higher rating. Mildly amusing