Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning
| release date | July 10 2004 |
| studio | Lions Gate Films |
| director | Grant Harvey |
| writer | Christina Ray |
| starring | Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Nathaniel Arcand, JR Bourne, Hugh Dillon, Adrien Dorval |
| rating | R |
| site | gingersnapsthemovie.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
2 Comments
I usually hate prequills but i loved this one! great story line, geat characters, great filming. Pretty good effects for a “low-budget” movie! again Katharine Isabelle is fantastic!!!
why they dont make other ginger snaps
I love this one too,
Boring and stupid,
I hated it,
It made me
Wanna kill myself.
OK but not near as good as the first. This one took its self too serious.
well its as shit as the other two
I really enjoyed this film.
It think this one is overrated. It deserves exactly the same rating as Ginger Snaps 2 in my book, but does not even touch the original Ginger Snaps, which was AMAZING. Worth a watch though.
How long can a movie drag on? The story goes back and forth way too much. How many times do we have to see bridgett make that stupid serious face. Just as bad as the second movie. Worth watching once just to say you finished the series. 6 just for the werewolves.
Gingers Snaps 1 and 2 were great, this was okay i guess..
WOW thats crazy
The end was CRAZY
i hated mostly everything about this…which saddens me.
i was not very impressed by this movie, but i love the idea to some extent…
For a time, i loved this movie more than the second one… But this movie is a little too slow… i still find it great and the ending is incredibly beautiful.
i’ll give it a 7/10
Well the main problem with this movie honestly…is the movie it’s self. When a movie/prequel is made sometimes just for the heck of it…it turns out to be good ( underworld: Rise of the Lycans ). Other times it just adds to confuse or in this case enrage the viewer. This move succeeds in both. From the ” how the hell are these two girls in the past ” storyline, to the fairly none existence of any real werewolf affects. To the i just don’t care about there ” special ” sister bond anymore plot. This movie is just bad on all fronts. Sure Emily and Kat do there best with what they are given here… but enough already. The second movie was a 5/10. It didn’t make the audience wonder why and or how the ” infection ” came to pass. So why make a movie that answers none of these questions at all…but is set in the guess of a prequel. This was a crapfest…and nothing more. I would give it a 4/10 had it not been in the series of Ginger. But because it is… it gets what it gives the audience.
As far as prequels go, I really dig this one. Keeps the actresses, but changes the setting, pretty original. Not on par with the first 2, but I don’t know why everyone’s complaining.
Overall, I felt “Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning” (a pseudo-remake/prequel set in the 19th century) was a more faithfull film to the original than the first sequel effort, “Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed”, but it is still a very strange film.
First of all, the film has have both a Prequel and a Remake feeling, and I think the filmmakers really didn’t want to pin it down with just one lable, so it’s cannon with the first two is left kinda up in the air.
It is a period piece which gives it some nice visuals to play with, but director Grant Harvey just doesn’t do as good a job as previous directors John Fawcett and Brett Sulivan. I guess if it was made independantly of the second film, I could understand, but the fact they were shot back-to-back makes this film just look… cheap at the hands of this director.
The script is nice, but a little convuluted, and some of the scenes felt either a little too “not-Ginger-Snaps-ish” or at times a little modern. There were also a few unneeded moments that took away.
It felt like there was more gore in this offering, which was kinda cool, but that wasn’t what made the first film, so that’s just kinda a nice detail.
The acting was decent. That’s all I have to say- not good, not bad. Decent.
Overall, I liked it better than the second, I felt it was truer to the original tone, but still nowhere near as good. Like the second film, fans of the original should check this out.
I wholeheartedly agree that the cinematography for this film is stylish and beautiful, and the ending leaves you as satisfied, if not more than that of the first one. However, the pacing is terribly slow, and most characters are left underdeveloped. Sometimes, you also struggle to keep up, and don’t always know what’s happening. So, tough choice. I’d call this one pretty balanced.
ugh this film sucked. it’s basically a remake of the first, just set in the 19th century. the story was boring, the pace was too slow. the acting was decent, but you can totally tell that katie isabelle and emily perkins are bored now with their characters, or maybe they thought the script was blah. Even in the commentary on the DVD, the director said katie isabelle(ginger) only agreed to do the film if she could ride a horse! the cinematography is terrific, i’ll give it that. but after the first 2 films which were great, i’m disappointed this is what they came up with for the 3rd. i would’ve rather maybe seen a continuation with the ghost character, and i hated her! i dunno, overall this was just a disappointing end to what could’ve been a fantastic trilogy
As far as being a prequels to the first 2 movies I really enjoyed this one. I’m glad they decided to bring back Katharine Isabelle as the main actress to. The film was original and left you wanting more even tho they will never make another ginger snaps I kind of wish they would.
Again, I love historical horror and this movie embodies why. Beautifully shot and acted.
Beautiful masterpiece
Conceptually very elegant and beautifully shot. The period-piece storyline was interesting but less than optimally executed. The actresses playing the two sisters were engaging and most of the supporting cast were good but some quite clunky in their acting (Hugh Dillon, who is excellent in the series Flashpoint, was woeful as a fundamentalist cleric, his acting greatly lacking conviction). At times the film dragged and the special effects under-par. Nonetheless, I adored the sisters and enjoyed the film generally.
A great werewolf film.
Yawn!
An interesting but sadly extremely disappointing kinda-prequel about the ancestors of the Fitzgerald sisters and the origins of the werewolf curse.
Pros: Perkins and Isabelle’s acting is great as usual. It’s highly atmospheric, extremely well shot, full of great make-up effects and beautiful-looking settings.
Cons: it’s often way too slow and tedious, many of the characters are either uninteresting or simply annoying, the werewolves costumes look shoddy and the dialogue is too boring and humourless.
This is my first “Ginger Snaps” films, so I’m completely ignorant of the two other films in the franchise.
I enjoyed this one. It has a slightly gothic atmosphere, and the director keeps things moving at decent clip. Please note that this is not the type of film where you are going to have a scare a minute. Tension builds to an okay climax. I personally wanted much more blood. There’s some convincing arterial neck spray/gush from one gent, that I enjoyed.
I think you probably know this is a werewolf movie, so I’m not spoiling anything for you. The werewolves are okay. I’m a fan of the walking upright, on two feet type of werewolf; much scarier in my opinion.
The f/x in this one is generally poor. The half-wolf boy is kinda fucked looking, so kudos there.
Worth a rental. You might be disappointed in the action department, as this film is a slow burner. It has good production values and recreates mid-1800′s early America pretty well. Costumes are good, well-acted though somewhat stage-y, and memorable characters.
This is really just the first film set during a different time period, enjoyable.
Didnt really get into this one the way I did the first two. The casting and the cinematography were well polished for a straight to dvd film (just like 1 and 2). But the story was to drawn out and boring. This series could have done without it. These girls do a good job at keeping you interested though.
The 1800′s Canadian wilderness/fort setting is friggin’ great–really lends itself to some nice sets and scenery for this different take on the series. As far as the storyline goes, the pace is slow at times, but think it fits the feel of the movie for the most part. The sisters are in fine form throughout, and the werewolf action pays off in spades when it needs to. The first Ginger is the best of the three, but The Beginning is definitely second best and stands alone as a good horror movie. If you liked the first two, then this is highly recommended.
Such a great prequel alot better than the second film.
All the three films are very very good and fantastic.
The werewolves at times looked pretty cool – like when they were dead…at other times however they looked like shitty muppets. Good atmosphere and scenery, OK story though slow moving, definitely not scary. Some good pieces here and there but it doesn’t deliver the payload. Worth a rent if you are bored.
This one was OK, but no way would I give it 5 stars! It’s not on the same standard as the first two (especially the first one) but it’s interesting enough and has an exciting finale. Unfortunately getting their is very slo and slightly boring at times. The werewolves didn’t particulary attack the fort full on like I imagined and so it became slow. However, it is very well directed with beautiful set-pieces and atmosphere. Worth a watch, but nothing to coo over.
This was a pretty good movie, but not the best Ginger Snaps.
I love this series! All of them are amazing. I completely agree with the BD reviewer. “Every facet of my personality was completely satisfied with this film: my visual side still can’t get over how beautiful the film looks, my screenwriter side got a script that challenged me and made me think, my sappy side got genuine emotion, my macho side got dizzying action, and my gorehound side got buckets of blood.” GREAT MOVIE! DONT MISS IT!
And I’m absolutely in love with the ending of this movie! One of the best endings ever!!