“Ginger Snaps Back” Movie Review
“Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning” is the third movie in the Ginger Snaps Trilogy. It takes place in 1815, far before the original movie and tells the story of the two sister’s, Ginger and Bridget, past selves and how the curse and incident in the Town of Bailey Downs came to be.
The movie starts off with the two sisters, Ginger and Bridget Fitzgerald, on a horse looking for passage west when they get lost. They soon stumble upon an Indian village that has been brutally attacked and slaughtered by an unknown source. They also find an elder there that tells them to “Kill the boy, or one sister kills the others.” Just when it couldn’t get any creepier, their horse freaks out of nowhere and runs off.
Chasing the horse, Bridget finds herself caught in a bear trap and Ginger runs back to the Indian village to try and find some help, but soon hears a howling wolf and rushes back to aid Bridget. While Ginger is off looking for some help, Bridget finds herself face-to-face with a wolf and an Indian hunter. Ginger sneak attacks the hunter as she returns but the hunter quickly stops her, having his wolf companion ‘keep an eye on her.’ Even though he had been attacked by them, the hunter knows that it was a misunderstanding and helps both the girls and has them follow him to safety at Fort Bailey.
When they get there, they find it is inhabited by only a few people. They attend to Bridget’s injury and gives the girls refuge from the wilderness. Not even a night has passed before they are attacked by monsters, learning that the fort has been under siege for nearly 2 months. During the night, Ginger gets up to go to the bathroom and follows a crying voice to a deformed boy that attacks and bites her on the shoulder. She then runs back to Bridget and they attempt to leave the fort but are attacked before they can escape. Some of the men are eaten alive and killed before they are able to get the main gate to the fort closed again. In the heat of the attack, the girls run back through the fort.
Being caught by the reverend, who has hated the two girls since they appeared at the front gates to the fort, he locks the two up in a house with one of the monsters who had apparently broken through one of the sides of the walls of the fort. Ginger and Bridget quickly run upstairs into a room and locks the door, being followed closely behind by the monster. Ginger and Bridget starts screaming for help as the animal started to tear through the door but before it could reach the girls, the hunter showed up behind the animal and shot it in the head, through the door, with an arrow. Escaping the house, Ginger curses the reverend for locking them in there to die. Needing all of the arms they can use, Wallace, who is in command of the fort, ignores it and sends the two girls to there room to stay safe.
Ginger then has a dream about what the elder said about killing the boy and wakes up to find her and the bed are both covered in blood coming from her bite mark. Bridget takes Ginger to see the old man who is responsible for taking care of the injured. But when they get there, they find Fin, a young boy in his teens, has been bitten and thus is put down by the old man. Later as Ginger is cleaning herself she finds that Wallace’s son, who was the boy who bit her on the shoulder, is changing into a monster and is still loose in the house and that she is also changing into a monster as well. She also learns that the monsters that people are changing into are Lycanthropy; werewolves.
For the next few hours, Ginger continues to change more and more. She also has a few run-ins with Wallace’s son, who is killing some of the men inside of the fort. After the last killing by Wallace’s son is found, the men discover a strand of Ginger’s hair, which the deformed boy had taken from her by accident when he bit her, and capture Ginger to find out if she is turning by the reaction a leach has to the blood of a werewolf. Wallace catches and stops them just in time and tells Ginger that she must leave. Before the two girls depart, the men find the boy and Wallace himself kills him, sending the girls back out into the wilderness.
The girls find the Cave of the Hunter and discover there is no cure after you have been bitten except death. Bridget then goes through a spiritual ritual to find out what will happen with the relationship between her and Ginger. While she is in the ritual, Ginger kills the elder and escapes from the cave. Finding out that what Ginger has done, Bridget and the hunter head back to Fort Bailey to wait for Ginger to come back for Bridget, which was foreseen in the ritual.
The movie ends with Ginger assaulting the fort, killing everyone, including the other werewolves, except for Bridget and the hunter. The hunter gives Bridget the knife from the vision in the cave to kill Ginger with, but she instead says “Together forever” and stabs the hunter in the chest. Both Ginger and Bridget escape the fort together. The last scene shows Ginger infecting Bridget, through blood contact, with Lycanthropy to save her from freezing to death.
This movie is great because of the combination of legends and werewolf lore. It contains a lot of mystery, suspense, and twists in the storyline. This is, by far, the best movie out of the whole trilogy and it is a must see for anyone who likes thrillers or is a fan of Lycanthropy videos. I would recommend this to anyone that wants to watch something out of the normal or if your just looking for some fantasy movies. A phenomenal movie by any standards.
For those who wish to see the beginning of this movie i have posted a link of it on Youtube below, enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHsZ6D2P4DM
