Gingersnaps

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Just by the title of the movie “Gingersnaps” without any knowledge of the actual genre of the movie, one can assume it’s a happy, cute, mellow film with dolls, unicorns and rainbows. Ironically however, the opposite is true in this movie. The movie Gingersnaps is everything but happy, girly and cute. It is the story revolving a tragic experience of two odd and strange sisters , ginger and Brigitte.

Gingersnaps for me was a film whose audience was more of the juvenile. The way Horror was projected had to do with monsters and mutants rather than the traditional ghosts. Gingersnaps reminded me on the tv series “Are You Afraid of The Dark?” which both the movie and series have a relatively soft horror.
Gingersnaps had a very unique one of a kind mix that plays with your emotions with very odd but still comedy, suspense , horror and gore.

To start off, the movie introduces with a black and white, dark images of what then looked like crime scene, death, gore, and more gore. But eventually revealed that were just created by the two odd yet bonded sisters who share the same interests and fascination of “playing dead”

My expectation for the movie was that it would have something to do with ghosts and a serial killer. The ghosts never came but somehow the serial killing did, but it was just in a form of a monster, a werewolf.

If I can describe the movie, basically its about werewolves, marijuana, and female puberty. It had its own style of horror since the movie still had to deal with death as death can be seen numerous times in it. It was also just gory and freaky when it came to the killings, the chopped fingers, and piles of blood and frozen body.

Personally, I am not really a fan of monsters or any mutants in horror films but there is no doubt that Gingersnaps is considered horror. The movie failed to give me a good scare but it gave me the creeps in the form of disgust from the blood and dead people in the film.

I liked Gingersnaps not for its horror side but because it had the unique way of projecting comedy despite tragedy and the presence of death.