BEFORE: Ah, a delightful movie about cookies...what, another female werewolf? Oh, right.
I went back to New York Comic-Con today for another attempt, but my pain was still with me, and was stronger than the Percoset - so I left around 2 pm, only putting in a half-day at the booth, and without getting many of the great pictures of costumed geeks that I usually get. But at least when I got home I got some sleep, after the pain subsided - and since 6:30 pm I've been both pain-free and drug-free.
THE PLOT: One of the Fitzgerald sisters, suburban goth girl outcasts, gets bitten by something in the woods (and it ain't a neighborhood dog).
AFTER: Ah, moody teen girls filled with suburban angst - I didn't understand them in high school, and I sure don't understand them now. In this film, lycanthropy is a metaphor for puberty - shortly after a teen girl gets her monthly "curse", she also gets the curse of the werewolf. Actually, the two conditions have a lot in common - mood swings, extra body hair, and both the moon cycle and the menstrual cycle are 28 days (or so) long. You could say that Ginger develops PMS - that's post-moon savageness.
As the bodies start piling up, the film develops a sort of black humor similar to that seen in "Heathers". But there are too many unbelievable elements, even for a horror film - no one noticed a dead dog in the middle of a hockey field? Ginger's parents don't notice scratches on the bedroom door, or a bathroom covered in blood? And, once you've found a cure for your sister's savage killing spree, why not, you know, use it?
The movie does get some extra points for some genuinely shocking moments - plus this is the goriest movie so far for me (this October, anyway) But points off for having semi-regular unnecessary fadeouts, which made this feel like a TV movie with the commercial breaks removed.
Starring Emily Perkins (last seen in "Juno"), Katharine Isabelle, and Mimi Rogers (last seen in "The Mighty Quinn")
RATING: 6 out of 10 hockey sticks
SPOOK-O-METER: 7 out of 10. What's more terrifying than high-school goth chicks? And that werewolf at the end is seriously bad-ass.
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