![]() ![]() ![]() So guess what? Why don’t you fucking look at it once in a while? For it to be labeled as shocking is just so boring to me.” And you know what? At the same time you should be, because being female is a fairly horrific fucking experience in itself. “It’s what, 2020 and we’re just seeing feminine hygiene products using red dye instead of this fucking blue shit? We’re always so mortified by this human experience that half of the people on the planet go through. The visual of bloody panties is so shocking,” says Isabelle. There are dog maulings along the way, and as we head towards the climax with Ginger becoming more and more monstrous, there’s plenty of gore.īut the most scandalous splash of blood is Ginger’s own first period. ![]() #How old is ginger brave movieThough there’s sex in the movie it’s really a love story between the two females while the only male character who we have any sympathy for is a drug dealer who has no sexual interest in either. This was about girls for a start – sisters Ginger and Brigitte who are weird outsiders fascinated with death. Written by Karen Walton who would go on to write for Queer as Folk and Orphan Black, and directed by John Fawcett (one of Orphan Black’s co-creators), Ginger Snaps was a fresh take on the werewolf subgenre and a brand new slant on teen horror. So to see this and be like, ‘Holy shit, this really speaks to me, I am this dark, insecure, troubled, deep, dark humored girl who feels outcast and misunderstood by everybody,’ I was just like, ‘Yes. “There weren’t a lot of really interesting characters coming out of that, especially in my small Vancouver, Canada acting world. “In the ’90s, as a 17-year-old girl it was ‘be hot, get murdered’,” says Isabelle. Scream: Ranking the Movies in Order of Quality By Sarah Dobbs Glossy teen slashers were the thing, which didn’t often make for great parts. More than that, in fact, it looks positively progressive and even transgressive in a year where we were onto our third Scream, our second Urban Legend, and our first Final Destination. Watching 20 years on and Ginger Snaps absolutely holds up. We had no idea that through the generations it would continue to have an effect on people.” ![]() “It wasn’t until it hit the VHS circuit in small town Canada that people were like, ‘Oh, Ginger!’ Emily and I thought we’d be the only people that liked it because we were weird and dark. It did well with some critics at a few festivals, but no one cared. “When it first came out, no one fucking watched it. Isabelle was just 17 when she stepped into Ginger’s very cool boots and she had no idea it would become a massive cult hit. And to me, that’s a hero,” says Katharine Isabelle, speaking with Den of Geek via Zoom from her home in Vancouver, 20 years after the film’s debut. She’s about fuck you, fuck the patriarchy, fuck the standard, fuck society, fuck the norm. Her name was Ginger, she was a 16-year-old girl, and ok, she might have turned into a monster and killed a few people but, wow, was she a ferocious figurehead for females everywhere. Meanwhile in Canada, while no one was watching, a new hero was emerging. In 2000 Mission: Impossible 2 topped the box office, Gladiator triumphed at the Oscars, and the first X-Men movie ushered in a new era of superhero movies. ![]()
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