Blu-ray Review: GINGER SNAPS TRILOGY

GINGER SNAPS is one of my favorite werewolf movies. It cleverly mixes the change female teens go through during puberty to the changes one goes through after being bitten by werewolves in addition to the bond between sisters.

GINGER SNAPS 2 is my least favorite of the three GINGER SNAPS movies. It is a sequel to the first one which takes place months after the first movie where Brigitte ends up in a mental hospital as she fights against becoming a werewolf and imagines Ginger talking to her. She plans an escape from the mental hospital with young Ghost (Tatiana Maslany in an early role over a decade before she starred in OPRHAN BLACK)

GINGER SNAPS BACK is thought of a prequel, but I consider it to be a clever reimagining taking place in the 19th century. The action takes place around and in a British fort out in the middle of the Canadian wilderness where the survivors of the fort are fighting the werewolves while Brigitte and Ginger are looking for a way out of the wilderness.

The GINGER SNAPS TRILOGY release is a mixed bag. The first movie has the highest bit-rate on the disc while the other two movies basically are at half that bit-rate with the extras in standard definition. GINGER SNAPS is around 30 MBps while the other two are between 15 to 20 MBps on average. In comparison, the DVDs form Lionsgate of GINGER SNAPS 2 and GINGER SNAPS BACK run from 5 MBps to 8 MBps.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
The extras from the Lionsgate DVDs have ported over to these blu-ray releases, but the GINGER SNAPS blu-ray doesn't include the new interviews that Scream Factory produced for their Collector's Edition release. The first movie has the extras at a higher bit-rate where the other two movies have the extras in standard definition.

FINAL ANALYSIS: GINGER SNAPS TRILOGY is a mixed bag and I hope some other boutique label (or Lionsgate) manages to release GINGER SNAPS 2 and GINGER SNAPS BACK with better transfers. If you want the sequel and prequel/ reimagining on blu-ray, this is the way to go.

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