Ginger Snaps
What starts off as a pretty standard spooky teen romp a la The Craft filtered through a turn-of-the-century suburban emo lens eventually spins hard into a merciless and pretty affecting piece of genuine horror. Though it suffers a bit from some extremely dodgy makeup and FX work (I'll give a pass to that hilarious wig, it never convinces but somehow works) there's something deeply sincere down in the heart of Ginger Snaps, a sincerity that becomes more pronounced the sadder and meaner the film becomes.
I don't know what I quite expected from Ginger Snaps but it wasn't this, it certainly wasn't something I went in expecting to feel much about beyond the surface. But to the immense credit of <PERSON> and <PERSON>, I'm able to walk away from it having experienced something genuinely meaningful. 823
A testament to the power of unapologetic genre cinema to tap into deeply human feelings and experiences.
Really loved this on the first go. Excited to take a swing at it again, hopefully sometime this Halloween.
Side note: the available transfer on this is dreadful. So besieged by early-HD "image sharpening" that it feels borderline deep fried. Please for the love of god get this a new scan.
Peacock
HD 823