Ginger Snaps Back : The Beginning (2004) 7/10

Starring : Katherine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Nathaniel Arcand, JR Bourne, Hugh Dillon
Director : Grant Harvey
Running Time : 91 mins

Sisters Brigitte (Perkins) and Ginger (Isabelle) arrive at a Canadian trader fort after being attacked by wild animals. They soon realise that the fort is surrounded by werewolves, and that one of them may already have become infected with the lupine syndrome.

Although not as good as the first film – in fact it is very different in almost every sense – this is a pretty decent mystery thriller where we have to guess who the werewolf might be. Obviously we know the girls are going to be affected, but that doesn’t detract from the overall storyline which is solid to say the least. Fans of the original might miss some of the humour and the whole teenage angst element of the movie, which are both pretty much absent here, but there is still a strong werewolf story here for horror fans.

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