Ginger Snaps II opens up not right where the original left off, but we see immediately that Brigitte “B” is still around, and doing her best to try and slow down the “change.” She spends all of her time taking the remedy that was discovered in the first episode, and searching for a cure in books at the library dealing with bloodletting, homeopathy and the like.

The local librarian is trying to make a move on B and when he gets shot down, he takes it upon himself to find B’s whereabouts and give her a few more books. He happens upon her just after she’s dosed, sees the needle and immediately assumes that she’s OD’ing on heroin. Do-gooder librarian grabs up B and tries to rush her to the hospital, but the werewolf that’s been stalking B has other plans.

B wakes up in a hospital / rehab center where the staff also assumes she’s a junkie. B is without her anti-werewolf remedy, in a support group full of catty, junkie bitches who are just begging to become a lycanthrope buffet. B wants nothing more than to break out and deal with her slow transformation in private. So what we’re left with is a very fun sequel that plays out kinda like One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest except that Nurse Ratched has been replaced by a horny orderly who offers drugs for "favors" and a werewolf who’s stalking B solely for the purpose of mating with her has been added, to which B states “don’t try too hard to visualize that.”

Emily Perkins does an outstanding job playing Brigitte, in this episode she’s no longer the timid worrier that she was. She has definitely taken on more of the qualities that made Ginger so loveable in the first, qualities such as strength, and a wicked and humorous penchant for sarcasm.

Also worth noting is Tatiana Maslany’s character Ghost whom Brigitte meets in the rehab center. Ghost is there because her grandmother was severely burned and Ghost has nowhere left to stay. Ghost is a pixie-ish, perky, ever inquisitive, and slightly annoying (in a funny way) girl who tries desperately to befriend B for reasons unknown.

Personally I found Ginger Snaps II to be much more gory than the first outing. We get a few vicious, gory werewolf attacks, a bunch of flashes in B’s mind of what she’d like to do to many of the rehab centers inhabitants, a bitch with a torn off face, a gnarly leg break, and some tasty deer intestine noshing. The EFX crew also did a great job creating the werewolf, and B’s slow transformations.

This one serves up lots of plot twists, and keeps you guessing until the end. And when the end arrives, you’ll be amazed at what the writers came up with.

A good movie with a great story behind it, the writer’s did a really good job being creative while staying faithful to what transpired in the first movie. Recommended!

9 out of 10 Glass shard earectomies

Yeah, I thought this was a damn good movie, just like the first one. It was a very dark and unhappy movie. I have a couple minor nags however(as usual).

I thought they should have made the orderly who was trading sex for favors a little more homely, instead of a super model. He should have been an unattractive wirey desperate looking guy who actually needed a bribe to score some action. This is a small point however.

One other thing. I watched part one a while back and forgot some of it, so I had no idea who the hell was chasing Brigitte throughout the movie and why. Perhaps they could have given us mentally delinquent viewers a flash back or something, to clue us in.

The storyline was good, and even though there were one or two predictable events, in general I was really left guessing. This is a good thing. The quick gorey visions she kept getting was fucking awesome. This quick vision technique is always successful when used in horror movies.

There was absolutely no drop off in the quality of Part one to Part two. More often than not, Part two is shit. Not here folks.

Paynecraft the Magnificent rates this movie 9 out of 10 rooms full of writhing auto-eroticizing junky babes.