GINGER SNAPS BACK: THE BEGINNING (aka Ginger Snaps 3)

Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning Movie Review

With Ginger dead and Brigette as good as gone, how does one create a third installment of the franchise, yet keep the same characters and actresses? The prequel, of course. But don't think we're going back to a year or two before the events of Ginger Snaps...we're going back a hundred and some years...you read that right, and no, it's not a typo...and it gets worse. As we know, Katharine Isabelle played the title character, Ginger, in Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps 2--Emily Perkins played her sister Brigette in both films. Both return in this film to play, presumably, ancestors of Ginger and Brigette named...wait for it...Ginger and Brigette. Not only do they look just like the previous incarnations of the characters, but worse, they talk just like them--yes, two girls in the 19th Century walk around talking like they just arrived in a DeLorean from 2004.

"Whoa, this is heavy"

Pretty much everything we like about the first two movies is thrown out the window in this film, and this story just sort of plods along. The sisters end up in a colony full of bad people, and the acting of said villains is awful across the board. Even Perkins and Isabelle seem bored and completely tired of playing these characters. You begin to wonder if the point of this movie is to say the sisters were cursed because this happened to their ancestors, or if the family just has unfortunate luck with werewolves--honestly, by the time you make it through this movie you probably won't care--I know I didn't. Ginger Snaps 2 was a nice way to end the story of Ginger and Brigette, and this is a prequel that nobody asked for, and the world didn't need. Watch the first two films but skip this one. 

On A Scale Of One To Ten: 4

Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning Movie Trailer