Ginger Snaps Back (The Beginning) is the prequel to the popular Canadian werewolf film “Ginger Snaps” which was a big hit. There is also a sequel “Ginger Snaps Unleashed” (Review) which was released earlier this year. Ginger Snaps Back takes us...
Grant Harvey, producer of Ginger Snaps: Unleashed, fails to successfully add to the mythology of the Fitzgerald sister’s legacy. It is not that Harvey isn’t a sound director, but as a critical appraiser of scripts, he was unsuccessful at selecting a screenplay that...
I was a big fan of the first Ginger Snaps, and Ginger Snaps 2 is very similar in style as the first film, just a different story. It pretty much starts where it left off. Bridgette is now a werewolf but is injecting her self with the wolf bane to keep herself from...
Director Brett Sullivan continues the saga of the Fitzgerald sisters in Ginger Snaps: Unleashed, picking up where his predecessor left off: the infection of the surviving sister, Brigitte. Screenwriter Megan Martin wisely retains the original premises and themes while...
As I stated in my review of Wolfen, I have the utmost appreciation for the genre of werewolf films because, in ratio to the other fields within the realm of horror, the filmmakers of lycanthrope cinema seem to demand more meaning for their buck. Having constructed a...
The Giant Gila Monster was created as part of a double B-movie bill in 1959. As I stated in my lambasting of its counterpart, The Killer Shrews, some B-productions are enjoyable because of how poorly executed they are in most every conceivable aspect. Such movies,...
