Ginger Snaps

Good film on BBC2 in ten mins. :wink:

In this highly sophisticated and disturbing Canadian horror movie,
director John Fawcett transcends the banality of the werewolf formula with
verve, well-paced action and genuine terror. When teenager Ginger
(Katharine Isabelle) is attacked by the legendary “Beast of Bailey Downs”,
she goes from being a death-obsessed Goth freak to a sexually charged
dominatrix. Too terrified to confide in their flaky, home-loving mother (Mimi
Rogers on fine form) and not wanting to go to the police when Ginger’s lust
turns murderously savage, her younger sister, Brigitte (Emily Perkins),
approaches an enigmatic drug dealer (Kris Lemche) for a cure. Fawcett
expertly puts the werewolf myth into the tortured adolescence melting pot
and keeps the blood spilling, the suspense high and the humour engaging as
this wonderfully crafted chiller hurtles towards a sustained, lyrical and
powerfully bleak climax.