Ginger Snaps (2000) on Netflix
NR20001h 48mDramaFantasyHorror
Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald, death-obsessed sisters in the suburb of Bailey Downs, share a pact to die together by sixteen. On the night of Ginger's first period, a creature bites her.
- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.8/1058,333 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes90%
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Plot summary
A rash of dog killings strikes Bailey Downs, the suburban town where teenage sisters Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald live. Fascinated by death, the two made a pact as children to leave or die together by sixteen. One night, on their way to kidnap a dog belonging to school bully Trina Sinclair, Ginger gets her first period, and the scent of blood draws the creature behind the maulings. It bites her. As the sisters flee, a van belonging to Sam Miller, a local drug dealer, runs the animal over. Ginger's wound heals at once, so she avoids a hospital. In the days afterward, Brigitte grows concerned as Ginger becomes aggressive, sprouts a tail, and grows hair from her scars.
Cast
- Jimmy MacInnisas Tim
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ginger Snaps (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Fawcett revealed in 2021 that Scarlett Johansson was originally offered the role of Brigitte, but her mother did not want her involved after reading a National Post article about a boycott of the film by casting directors in Canada.
- Six casting directors in Toronto, who chose to remain anonymous, announced they would boycott Ginger Snaps because of their worries about it depicting the murder of high school students after multiple school shootings in the United States and Canada.
- Fawcett eschewed CGI for traditional prosthetics and make-up, so Isabelle had to spend up to seven hours in the makeup chair to create Ginger's metamorphosis and a further two hours to remove them, wearing contacts that hindered her vision and teeth that meant she could not speak without a lisp.
- Long shooting days pushed the start later each day until scenes written for day were being shot late into the night; director of photography Thom Best solved it with diffusion gel and four eighteen kilowatt lamps which generated enough light to be seen a mile high in the sky.
- The bloody, staged deaths photographed for the title sequence drew a crowd and left Fawcett worried about upsetting the neighbors; a homeowner's basement served as the changing room, and each time the blood-covered actors needed to change, someone had to distract the homeowner's four-year-old child.
SPOILER
The music video for Sabrina Carpenter's song "Taste" features a visual reference to the scene where a character is impaled by a white picket fence.
