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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)

   
Produced & Directed by: Grant Harvey

Written by: Stephen Massicotte & Christina Ray

Starring:


Katharine Isabelle .... Ginger
Emily Perkins .... Brigitte
Nathaniel Archand .... The Hunter / The Indian
JR Bourne .... James
Hugh Dillon .... Reverend Gilbert
Adrien Dorval .... Seamus
Brendan Fletcher .... Finn
David La Haye .... Claude
Tom McCamus .... Wallace Rowlands
Matthew Walker .... Doc Murphy

Release Date: Fantasia Film Festival: July 10, 2004 (Canada); Munchen Fantasy Filmfest: July 25, 2004; Frankfurt Fantasy Filmfest: August 10, 2004; Berlin Fantasy Filmfest: August 17, 2004

*Images courtesy at: www.outnow.ch

Rating:

 

In the 19th century of Canada both Brigitte (Emily Perkins) and her sister Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) are riding on their horse in the snowy forest and while their horse runs away after they both encounter a strange native hunter (Nathaniel Archand), they both take refuge in a Traders' Fort but one of the girls named Ginger is bitten after she encounters a deformed boy as she couldn't describe him.
Ginger doesn't feel too well and doesn't know where to turn and also discovers that the Fort is becoming an under siege by some salvage werewolfs.
Ginger and Brigitte are also tormented by some of the people at the Fort to top it all off and encounter strange nightmares too.

 

This one was the best of them all and showing the ancenstry of Ginger and Brigitte during the time when they burned evil people at the stake.
The story was very powerful and totally different than the first two films by any means.
It has powerful dialogue and intensity of the surroundings in this story.

The acting is powerfully good and this has to be Emily Perkins best performance as Ginger's sister Brigette since she is very different in this role by being tough when she needs to be and adventureous too.
Katharine Isabelle
has good energetic appeal to her part and shows great disturbing emotions as Ginger when she is bitten and doesn't know how to cope with it.
Nathaniel Archand
really pulled off his part as a mysterious native.
JR Bourne
lived to play a redneck asshole in the film as he was one of the best actors in this film as one of the warriors at the Traders Fort. He really makes you love to hate him.
T
om McCamus was marvellous playing a kind hearted and tough as nails character as the father of his child who was turning into a werewolf. I liked his character the best in the film.

Lots of bloodshed.
Werewolves are mangled.
A werewolfs head is impaled on a sharp stick.

Grant Harvey was very powerful with his work in this film showing great action throughout the film.
He shows a nice opening with werewolves attacking others and then it goes to both Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins riding on a horse in the snow.
Perkins
reacted very well acting like she was in intense pain after her leg gets caught in a bear trap and then a dog comes up to her is if to attack her.
Harvey
makes a battle sequence between Nathaniel Archand and Isabelle look dynamic in the snowy forest.
There's a scene that will make you jump when Isabelle walks up to a crying child and then the child turns to show he is deformed.
One of the best directions was with Isabelle and Perkins against the main supporting actor JR Bourne with his abusive attitude towards them when they try to leave the Fort and then the terror happens with the werewolves outside dragging people in to eat up as the reactions were perfect.
We see a nice dream sequence between Isabelle and Archand making out together after she shows him she has been bit.
There's a moment that looks truly intense when Bourne is hitting and strangling Perkins' character on her bed and it looks so real too.
Isabelle
was perfect crying on set after seeing a child being shot while he is a quarter way transforming into a werewolf.
We also get a great shot on Perkins in the foggy woods crying out and looking around as she experiences terrifying events too.
We see a real touching moment between Isabelle when she confronts Perkins' character that she will become a werewolf soon.
Perkins
shows a nice evil and powerful look after staring at Isabelle and then strikes to shoot Bourne's character.
Also, supporting actor Tom McCamus looked perfectly tough when he stabs Hugh Dillon's character as both of their reactions to this was a classic timing.

Ginger: [after Hunter whistles at them] Did he just whistle at us?
Brigitte: I'm sure he meant the dog.

Ginger: Something bit me

Brigitte: [lying in Ginger's lap] Ginger, I'm cold.
Ginger: I'm not.

Ginger: [after being hit by James] You hit like a girl!
James: Well, we've got all night to fix that.

Ginger: Come closer... it's a secret.
[smiles through canine teeth]
Ginger: [whispers] they're coming.

Reverend Gilbert: You've let a pair of little girls destroy us! You never could see how they lied, and tricked, and tempted you into oblivion! Just like that bitch wife of yours!
Wallace Rowlands: Forgive me father
[stabs Reverend Gilbert]
Wallace Rowlands: for I have sinned.