Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

Ginger Snaps 2 always looks great, which is nice since the film's plot is such a bore. How many sequels are going to use the "the only survivor from the first film is trapped in an insane asylum" plot? Well-tread territory.

I will not spoil the film's ending, but I will lament its disappointing turn. To simply throw a twist into the ending of a film does not make up for the lack of originality of the film as a whole. Plus, the twist and subsequent ending have nothing to do--at all--with the Ginger Snaps franchise. It's just like, "Well, here's a twist," and it involves a sub-plot so inconsequential that the twist itself is meaningless.

Boring, disappointing stuff. Let's hope the prequel has an actual ending and not some tacked-on nonsense.

Bridgette is still in the predicament that she was in at the end of the first movie. She mixed blood with her sister and started changing. In this movie she is on the run and battling the disease. She found that wolfsbane isn't the cure that they thought it was, it just delays the tranformation. She is cutting herself to see how long it takes for the wounds to heal, gauging how far the illness has gone. Ginger's ghost talks to her from time to time, telling her that it is futile, she just has to accept what is happening.

The main problem arises when a guy that is interested in Bridgett is attacked by a wolf creature and she is knocked out in the process. When she awakes she is in a mixed institution where they think she is a drug addict, and won't let her have her monks hood. The movie takes an air of desperation because she can't tell them exactly what is happening, and they take her desperation as a sign of addiction and put her through the program like everybody else.

This movie is edgier and creepier than the first one. In the first movie, they are in a bright and seemingly supportive world where they face a desperate situation. Here she is in a dark and restricted world where she has to face the same thing. Her only friend is a strange and hyperactive girl named ghost. Who aside from her cheerful manner, has the same morbid fascination that Bridgett and Ginger had in the first movie. There is the sleezy orderly, who offers her the wolfsbane, but only for a price. She later finds that he makes offers to all the girls at the institution, their poison for sex. There is also a mix of other inmates, ranging from hostile, to delusional and pathetic who add to the crazy atmosphere.

Unleashed has more plot twists and turns, characters aren't all what they seem. With the ending they coud easily crank out another sequel. I know they have another one in the works, but that is a prequel. They could do another movie based off some of the characters they introduced in this movie, one in particular but I don't want to give anything away. They add more and more of the dark humor, so I eagerly await the prequel, and anything else that the creative crew behind it is planning on doing.