Ginger Snaps Back (DVD)

[stacilayne]

Director: Grant Harvey - Starring: Katharine Isabelle, Emily Perkins, Nathaniel Arcand [details (http://www.horror.com/php/article-587-1.html)]

[Daghda]

I have seen all three movies of the Ginger snap saga and I realised that this movie just doesn't fit in the saga. Despite a higher budget and better special effect this movie simply lacks the humor and the setting of the two firsts movies.

Even if the second isn't as good as the first I think that at least the story has more substance then the third one, which is simply look like a try to make more money with a formula that worked for two movies. The only thing they forgot is that using the same caracter in a different setting in which they don't belong make this movie only an inferior copy of the two firsts.

As an explanation as to where the curse come from it's rather weak and only show us that the director/scenarist had not enough imagination to create some more caracter or use a different approach scince the way the movie progress is pretty much like the precedant ones. The worst part is that it seems to have been made with no prior consultation of the precedant movies and it simply doesn't fit in the story told by the firsts movies.

The movie in itself except for the weak scenario isn't this bad but in the serie this film is terrible. As a prequel I never saw worse scince it has nothing to do in the story, in fact the only link it has with the other movies is the caracters and they don't even keep their full personnality.

For this reasons I consider it's the worse movie of the serie. But it's a good film anyway

[MetalHeadDave]

I thought this movie was great, but not on par with the first two installments. In my opinion, Unleashed was the most superior of the three simply because I can relate to the subject matter of rehab and abuse. I thought it was beautifully done and acted all around and the characters (especially ghost) were the most memorable of the series. The origional will always hold a special place in my heart, though, since it led this to be one of my favorite franchises in genre history.