Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)

I really enjoyed thw other 2 movies in the series, I had this movie for few years now, I have tried to watch it a few times, I could never really get into. So yesterday , I deiced to watch in full for once and I still find it really hard to get into movie. I wasn't bored with this movie, I was just watching it but I was not liked what I was seeing. There were some decent bloody and gory moments in this movie, That I liked and I the werewolf looked good in the movies, some decent effects. I didn't enjoy ginger snap 3 as much as the other to movies in the series. 5 out of 10

The camera work and direction and editing were well done, however the two characters and dialog were completely unbelievable. Terrible dialog and diction that belongs in the 21st century. They really needed a language and diction coach, unless they were going for the time-traveling spoiled teenagers angle. I fully expected some twenty- something dudes to show up with a six pack and a pickup truck to save the day.Synopsis: Two girls, lost in the Canadian woods, come across a destroyed native village, where an old woman speaks a cryptic prophecy and hands them necklaces. A handsome young native hunter shows up to guide them to a trading post, where they meet more stereotypical characters in the priest, the old doctor, several disposable "red-shirts", the misogynistic lieutenant and kindly commanding officer who has dirty secrets regarding the werewolves that have been trying to wipe them out for several months. Racial tensions just happen to come to a climax, while everyone is having a nice dinner, and profound words are spoken regarding equality, and the fight is over.Later that night, one sister in her nightie (yes, a nightie) follows the sound of crying to a locked up boy who bites her, and of course tears off her necklace for the commander to find later, then escapes into the fort to cause several moments of drama and moral conflicts between the soldiers. The sister starts to turn, and in the midst of a werewolf attack (which started when she opened the gate), everyone ignores the obviously sick girl, the commander kills to protect his secret that apparently almost everyone knows already-that the werewolf kid is the commander's son.The CO feels guilty over his wolfie son and shoots him, but protects the girls. When the girls are kicked out of the fort, they wander through the woods, until they meet another native from the fort who guides them to a cave, where they meet again the hunter and the old woman who sends Bridgette on a hallucination/prophecy trip which is obviously misleading the audience.Bridgette wakes to find the old woman dead, wolfie sister gone, and the handsome hunter telling us all and Bridgette what to maybe expect in the next few scenes. Leading her back to the fort, he betrays her, because the moral here is that handsome boy doesn't mean nice boy. The dramatic and waffling tension over who is good/evil, sane/insane, moral/immoral etc continues as they countdown for the wolfie sister to return with her pack, and wipe out everyone in the name of avenging all the wrongs done to her. Oh. So they were all evil and needed to die? Just the sisters escape, as the fort burns down.Touching ending with the sisters once again swearing "together forever". I'd watch your back Bridgette. She looks hungry.

i really loved the whole concept back in 1815 and the sisters where the same age as in the first and second installment. i never seen the first or second, i started with the prequel first and got me really interested in the others. if your in to dark fairy tales like the brother grim type of stuff you should give it a chance and i heard this was the weakest one out of the 3, so really looking forward to it.the way this film was shot was very gloomy on the woods of Canada, it had a horror feeling to it, with not a lot of blood for gore hounds but enough to keep you wanting more. the acting was great especilally with the sisters. it's a great rainy day movie to create the perfect feeling for this movie so i suggest you give it a shot, i give it 7/10

The original "Ginger Snaps" was a fun, affecting coming-of-age tale disguised as a werewolf movie that introduced us to Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), two of the most endearing horror heroines in recent memory. "Ginger Snaps Back"--a prequel of sorts--takes a decidedly different route from its predecessor, transposing the Fitzgerald sisters from the present day to a 19th Century Civil War base, where it turns out The Curse is alive and well. I have to give the filmmakers credit--as opposed to slavishly sequelizing the first film for a quick buck, writers Christina Ray and Stephen Massicotte and director Grant Harvey have revamped the original "Ginger Snaps" mythos into a mostly successful period piece. "Back" is beautifully photographed, with excellent sets and costumes; the inhabitants of the base (including a general hiding a deformed son) are clichéd, yet ultimately well-drawn; and the undercurrent of themes--from serious Indian spiritualism to the importance of family to the dangers of fundamentalism (among others) are subtly incorporated. While the film's anachronistic feel threw me for a loop, the well-intentioned performances (sans any self-referential irony) kept me watching...above all, Isabelle and Perkins display the same sisterly devotion that gave the first "Ginger Snaps" its humor and heart--there is an undeniable power to their on-screen interaction that sustains "Back" for its duration.