Night Owl Cinema
Friday, March 3rd
at 9:30 PM
New Digital
Restoration!
GINGER SNAPS
Members $10 | Public
$15
Controversial upon its release and now a feminist cult
favorite, Ginger Snaps is a supernatural coming-of-age
story centering around two misfit sisters, 15-year-old Brigitte Fitzgerald (Emily
Perkins) and almost 16-year-old Ginger (Katharine Isabelle), who are
obsessed with dying and bound by a childhood pact to stay together forever.
Their loathing of mind-numbing suburban existence quickly changes to a
survival-first mindset when Ginger is savagely attacked by a werewolf while
walking at night in the woods. She survives and her external wounds heal, but
something is clearly not the same. Cleverly equating the onset of puberty with
the unleashing of an implacable feminine id, screenwriter Karen Walton (Orphan
Black) and director John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps is
a critique of the dangers of conformity, a subversive delight, howling with
laughs, screams and frightfully fun dialogue. (Canada, 2000, 108 min.,
color, Rated R, DCP | Dir. John Fawcett)