Post by lordhowl on Dec 24, 2011 0:53:26 GMT -5
No posts in a month? That's discouraging. I hope it's the state of the website, similar to a derelict building abandoned by its owners and left to decay, and not so much the movie(s), but it's possible that it's the latter. No doubt, the movie is going on 12-years old. The actresses, Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle, and Kris Lemche, are far away from their teen years now, and the director, John Fawcett, and writer, Karen Walton, have both gone on to other things.
Yet, strip away the horror elements or put them into the background, and this this was a great little film, and I thought, timeless. To me, they froze something in time: that point in your teenage years where childhood ends, where your life can go down one path or another but can't stand still, and the path is irreversible. The lost friendships that, no matter how much you valued them, you can't get back, the fact that the friend is different as an adult than they were a child. The sisters don't look like sisters, don't physically resemble each other, yet you never doubt that they are, you never doubt that they are inseparable.
Put the horror elements back, and it's an even greater film. I'll remember several parts, I think for the rest of my life. The scene where Ginger is mauled: taken from playground through the "gates" of a swing set into forbidding woods. Later, Brigitte walking down the steps over the blood trail and fainting, the way more characters should do in horror movies. Her meeting Ginger and sudden cooperation with drinking blood.
The making Ginger a tragic character in the classic sense. She just didn't have a mature idea of what devotion was. Brigitte has a better idea, but Ginger shocks her too much. She wavers at a bad time and loses Ginger.
No, the special effects aren't great. It suffers from a bunch of continuity errors, and the low budget shows. Brigitte falls into a dog carcass where nobody could have possibly missed it, but when they shot this movie, they got the most important things right and created a small miracle.
I'm about as far away from this film's demographic as I could get, but I love it.