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Post by epiklow on Jun 13, 2010 19:05:57 GMT -5
I found a website called "moviefone" which had some reviews on Ginger Snaps & also a list of movies that they think are similar. Has anyone seen any of these movies? Are they really similar?
The list includes;
Fun The Craft Heathers Sweetie The Rage: Carrie 2 The Howling Carrie May Cursed Make A Wish Skinwalkers Blood and Chocolate The Brood Teeth Wolfen An American Werewold in London Howling III: The Marsupials Cherry Falls 5ive Girls
I've seen: The Craft, Cursed, Heathers, May, Blood and Chocolate, An American Werewolf in London, Carrie, and Cherry falls. They are kind of similar, but not that much. Especally not Cherry Falls ahaha.
Right now I'm going to watch "Fun". Seems interesting...
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Post by †Wicky Wicked† on Jun 14, 2010 6:31:58 GMT -5
I've seen The Craft, Heathers, Carrie, Blood and Chocolate and Cherry Falls. I don't find any of them similar to Ginger Snaps. The main themes of Gigner Snaps are becoming a werewolf and the band between Ginger and Brigitte.
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Post by epiklow on Jun 14, 2010 8:25:08 GMT -5
Yeah.
I watched "Fun" last night. Wasn't that good. The Bonnie character kind of looked like Ginger, and the other character talked about being a werewolf at the end, but that was only metaphorically speaking.
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Post by lordhowl on Jun 14, 2010 11:43:19 GMT -5
I've seen The Craft, Heathers, Carrie, Blood and Chocolate and Cherry Falls. I don't find any of them similar to Ginger Snaps. The main themes of Gigner Snaps are becoming a werewolf and the band between Ginger and Brigitte. You'd be hard pressed to find a movie similar to GS. Some will point to Carrie due to the menstruation and high school outcast angle. The problem is, Carrie more or less went in a completely different direction on the first, and on the second the girls had each other, their outcast status was somewhat a two-way thing, and it was in no way as desperate as Carrie's. They pretty much had their own little clique. They just didn't know if their friendship could survive their sexual awakenings and their needs for other friends. It has also been compared more strongly with "The Fly," and John Fawcett made the GS with that movie in mind. That's what he was aiming for. Thing is, it's actually quite a bit better than "The Fly," simply because everybody goes through puberty, but not everybody makes a major technical error and screws up their DNA. It is also similar in some ways to "Jennifer's Body," but JB is a bad movie. It specifically tried to imitate GS, in terms of the two high school girls who had been childhood friends whose friendship is shaken after one of them has a brush with a supernatural creature (not a werewolf, they needed to legally claim they weren't ripping of GS). Now, I hear "The Curse" might be similar, but I haven't seen it. The local blockbuster doesn't have it on the shelves. Other than that, I don't know of any that would be similar to GS, or which would plot itself the same way.
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Post by sophielovessam on Jun 14, 2010 14:18:20 GMT -5
The only one I have seen is Carrie (Booooo, I'm a loser ) And I can see where its coming form with the whole menstruation thing and being an outsider. I watched it the same way I watched GS, late one night flicking trough channels and, although it was a good movie.. it just didnt have the same effect.
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Post by nat on Jun 14, 2010 15:55:34 GMT -5
I think Heathers has the same tone as the first Ginger Snaps movie.
These are the movies I would recommend to people that are like Ginger Snaps. Trick R Treat (mostly just one segment of it, but it had the feminist overtones and sexual undertones) The Fly *1986* (mostly because the two movies have a very similar pacing with the main characters transformation) Behind the Mask: Rise of Leslie Vernon (these stories couldnt be more different, but both have the same kind of humor and story structure. They both begin with a sorta macabre humor but as time goes on both become straight up horror where all the fun it once had is gone and your scared shitless)
Thats all I have off the top of my head.
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Post by lordhowl on Jun 14, 2010 16:00:53 GMT -5
The only one I have seen is Carrie (Booooo, I'm a loser ) And I can see where its coming form with the whole menstruation thing and being an outsider. I watched it the same way I watched GS, late one night flicking trough channels and, although it was a good movie.. it just didnt have the same effect. Did you see the 1976 version or the 2002 remake? Did you notice that the remake had Katharine Isabelle in it? 10th billing, about what she gets on average. Actually, the Stephan King book (his first one!) was better than either of them. But I don't know of another horror movie that presents the dilemmas that GS did. Mostly, the one of trying to stay devoted to your childhood friend when you have needs for adolescent friendships, and also the problem of the oath, an expression of love that meant one thing when you were a child but means something totally different when you're an adolescent. I don't know of another movie that did either of those, and made it scary. Moreover, I don't know of another one that does this kind of tragedy: where you have not a "coming of age" story, but a "loss of childhood" story. I'm not certain Karen Walton meant it like that, or if it just accidentally works.
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Post by sophielovessam on Jun 17, 2010 14:43:25 GMT -5
I saw the '76 version, But I'll have to check out the remake! Im definately going to have to read the book, I've been running out of things to read and I like that sort of stuff
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Post by lordhowl on Jun 17, 2010 16:42:16 GMT -5
I saw the '76 version, But I'll have to check out the remake! Im definately going to have to read the book, I've been running out of things to read and I like that sort of stuff The book is probably a little dated, but it was when Stephen King really had an edge, and you'd be surprised how much more chilling and moving it is than the movie. Not to knock that movie; it was a groundbreaking horror film at the time, and Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie are just fantastic in their roles. You simply never saw horror movies done like that before. Unfortunately, they did not have the budget to do what the book did.
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Post by sophielovessam on Jul 1, 2010 7:25:27 GMT -5
Usually, whenever people try to make movies from books, they're never as good as the books. I watched The Lovely Bones recently after reading the book and it was a really good movie except it just wasnt as good as the book. The same with My Sisters Keeper.
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