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GINGER SNAPS (John Fawcett) finds two sisters (Katharine Isabelle, Emily Perkins) forming a goth-geek dyad at their school until Ginger, the elder, gets her period and gets bitten by a werewolf. Suddenly, she turns into a voracious monster in every sense of the word, while her sister tries to keep her under control and find a cure for her lycanthropy. The metaphor — that puberty makes a woman dangerous — is a little laboured, but director Fawcett and screenwriter Karen Walton manage an intriguing post-Buffy twist on a very old tale. The film’s main weakness lies in the cheesiness of the effects, its strength in the unusual wit of the screenplay and the performances, particularly Isabelle’s Ginger and Mimi Rogers as Mother Oblivious. 93 minutes. NNNN
