Ginger Snaps Page #2

Synopsis: Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it isn't just local dogs that begin to die.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director(s): John Fawcett
Production: DEJ Productions
  8 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
NOT RATED
Year:
2000
108 min
Website
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the host from within...

Eventually the invader consumes

its host completely...

...and finally destroys it.

Complete meiosis involves

successive division sequences...

...which results in four new

cells, each of which is...

This one comes with a free calendar.

Are you sure it's just cramps?

Just so you know...

...the words 'just' and

'cramps' they don't go together.

Ok, you really groaning a lot here.

One day, you too will know my pain.

Hey, diss me or whatever

but, I got three sisters...

...and nothing quite takes

the edge off like a good toke.

Well, maybe I like my edge...Thanks.

Or maybe you're just chicken to lose it.

Pass the fag.

That's a girl.

-Yeah.

An eighth's fifty.

I don't want any drugs.

- Then amscray.

I was just wondering

what you hit.

Well, officer, looked like

a lycanthrope to me, sir.

- I know what a lycanthrope is.

- Sure you do.

Think you see werewolves a lot?

Why, do you?

Is it working?

No...and now I just don't care.

What the hell are you guys doing in here?

Sam, the Man.

Sam, man, we just needed

a place to come and smoke.

Hey, you know, I have an idea.

Why don't you guys get

the f*** outta my van, a**holes!

No I'm serius. Get out!

Samuel, what happened in your truck?

- I tapped a tree, all right. Good bye.

Ginge, lets go.

Yeh, why don't you

stick to your own species Fitzenstien?

Trina, stick my fist.

Oh you b*tch!

Okay, baby.

Ging, what's going on?

Something's wrong.

Like more than you being just...

...female.

Can you just say something please?

Whoa!

Whoa? That's it? 'Whoa'?

I can't have a hairy chest, Bee.

That's f***ed!

No way.

The f***? What the f***?

This isn't...

- What?

No way, like...

- What?

Bitten on a full moon.

Now you're hairy?

I know, but think about it.

Well thank you for taking my

total f***ing nightmare so seriously!

Oh sh*t!

What if I'm dying or something?

We gotta see the nurse.

I'm sure it seems like a

lot of blood. It's a period.

But earlier it was like...

Geyser.

Everyone seems to panic their first time.

Neither of you have had

a period before and you're how old?

I'm almost sixteen, she just

turned fifteen. She skipped a grade.

A thick, syrupy, voluminous

discharge is not uncommon.

The bulk of the uterine lining is

shed within the first few days.

Contractions, cramps,

squeeze it out like a pump.

In three to five days you'll

find lighter, bright-red bleeding.

That may turn to a brownish or blackish

sludge, which signals the end of the flow.

OK, so it's all normal?

- Very!

Expected every twenty-eight days,

give or take, for the next thirty years.

Great. Thanks.

What about hair that

wasn't there before, and pain?

Uhuh, comes with the territory.

Thank you. Lets go Bee.

Wait, you'll have to protect

against both pregnancy and STDs now...

Play safe!

Wish this were baby's legs.

Ginger's very favorite.

Congratulations sweetie.

You know you can ask me anything.

You're so dead.

I didn't.

Our little girl's a young woman now.

I'd never tell her anything.

- Unless you wanted to piss me off!

I want you to be okay.

- I am, I just got my period...ok?

Now, I've got weird hairs, so what?

That means I've got hormones...

...and they may make me butt-ugly,

but they do not make me a monster.

So you got bit by a great big hormone.

Well not by what you think.

They don't exist!

Norman shut the f*** up!

Maybe he's barking at you.

Did I change last night?

Howl at the moon, kill sh*t and

change back this morning? Huh... No!

Did it take a silver bullet

to stop that thing? No!

It got killed

by a f***ing truck.

You always blow off anything you don't get.

- Yeah, when it's bullshit!

You're doing drugs with guys.

Something is definitely wrong with you.

You know, maybe you're right.

Maybe I do see a monster.

Yeah, it's got these little green eyes.

Oh yeah, like I really wish I was hemorrhaging

and hairy and sucking off jason McCarty.

Well you always wanted to be me!

- Well this isn't you, so.

Oh, poor Bee. I'm growing up

and obviously you're not, huh?

Well don't let me hold you back or anything.

- Oh well don't worry, I won't.

Only one creature on earth destroys

for pure pleasure. It's a werewolf.

Oh my god, here it is.

He's hideous!

Get the f*** outta the bathroom!

I'm trying to get ready!

Ginger? Oh my god.

Oh babe...

Check it out.

Hello, hello, hello...

Hey!

Kid, you got a smoke?

No.

You got a light then?

Oh, thank you.

I just spent a week of my life

looking for you. Give me a sec.

You dropped this on my truck.

Okay, we both saw it.

What the f*** was it?

- It's what you hit.

- Hm! I know...

...but what the f*** was it?

See, I flattened an animal.

Furry, all-fours, could be anything...

...but here I am thinking 'lycanthrope'

That's crazy, huh?

Book me in to the rubber motel,

I'm officially all f***ed up, right?

What if you're not?

Well, that would explain

the human circumcised dick...

...and why you were

running for your life from it.

I have to go. Thanks for my stuff.

What's your name?

- Bullshit.

- Thanks.

No, hey bullshit?

What do you say?

Swear you won't call a freak show.

Yeah, I swear.

I'm Changing like right now and

full moons have nothing to do with it.

You're serious?

...and everything I look at goes silver

bullet in a gun to my head, the end.

Wow.

Lets not panic here. I mean...

...for one, that thing on the road,

my van did a pretty good job on it.

What are the benefits of silver bullets?

So, let's just forget the Hollywood rules.

It's got to be a cure right? Otherwise,

it would be a hell of a lot more of them.

It's like an infection, it works

from the inside out. It's like a virus.

Biology, there's something

you can sink your teeth into.

So to speak.

You're real, your problem's

real, the solution's real.

Not bam death by morality call.

The again when I start piercing sh*t, I got infections...

a girl says try pure silver... cleared up like that.

The ancients thought

pure metals purified the blood.

They thought leeches did too.

- They do.

Hey, why don't you get

your slut-b*tch sister a leash?

What a freak.

A nice bird necklace.

Ginger, a word?

Is it sorry?

- No.

Come on Jason, lets go.

Oh yes.

Ginger!

Hey. She is ovulating!

- See you freak.

- Bye bye.

This is a very exciting,

confusing time for your sister.

Boys, her body,

trying to fit in.

Maybe if she found that she

could share more with you...

...you'd both be a lot happier.

You know, Brigitte,

your turn's coming too ...one day

My stomach.

Hey, take it easy, alright?

We've got all night.

Sorry, you just taste really good.

- Just lie back and relax.

- You lie back and relax!

Who's the guy here?

Who's the guy here? Huh?

Who's the f***ing guy here?

Don't we need protection here?

Stop it!

Wait a second!

You're f***ing hilarious cave boy.

Ginge?

What happened?

Did he hurt you?

If he hurt you, you should tell.

Oh, my god!

Get out! Get out!

- What happened?

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Karen Walton

Karen Walton is a Canadian screenwriter. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Karen Walton wrote the film Ginger Snaps, for which she won a Best Film Writing Canadian Comedy Award in 2002. She later wrote for the Canadian television series What It's Like Being Alone and also for three episodes of the American version of Queer as Folk, where she also served as executive story consultant. She appeared in the 2009 documentary Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror. In recent years, she has served as a writer or writer/producer on Canadian television series including Flashpoint, The Listener and Orphan Black, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide and airs on BBC America in the United States. more…

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