Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
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| Directed by | Brett Sullivan |
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| Written by | Megan Martin |
| Based on | Characters by Karen Walton John Fawcett |
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| Music by | Kurt Swinghammer |
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| Edited by | Michele Conroy |
| Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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94 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.5 million |
| Box office | $80,372 (US) |
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed is a 2004 Canadian horror film. The film is a sequel to 2000 film, Ginger Snaps and the second installment in the Ginger Snaps series, written by Megan Martin and directed by Brett Sullivan. A prequel, Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning, was filmed back-to-back with Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed and was also released in 2004. John Fawcett, director of the first film, executive produced.
After the events of the first film, Brigitte Fitzgerald uses monkshood extract to fight the effects of the lycanthropy that transformed her sister into a werewolf. Brigitte shaves her body, cuts her arm with a scalpel, and logs the data about her healing ability. Ginger, her dead sister, appears as an apparition and warns her that monkshood is only a treatment, not a cure. After Brigitte injects a second dose of monkshood, she senses the presence of a male werewolf that has been stalking her. She quickly packs and opens the door, only to find Jeremy, a flirtatious librarian who has brought to her several books she attempted to check out earlier. The second injection causes toxic shock, and Jeremy attempts to bring her to the hospital; however, the male werewolf mauls him to death. Brigitte stumbles down the street and collapses in the snow.
Brigitte wakes in a rehab clinic, from which she unsuccessfully attempts to escape. She pleads to be released, but the clinic's director Alice refuses. However, Brigitte palms a piece of glass to measure her healing rate. Tyler, a worker at the clinic, offers to trade monkshood for sexual favors, which she declines. As her healing rate accelerates, so does her rate of transformation. Ginger continues to appear, taunting Brigitte as she experiences growing cravings for sex and murder, as did Ginger previously. During a group therapy session, Brigitte fantasizes about being instructed to lie on the floor and masturbate; a vision of Ginger jolts her back to reality, and her palm is revealed to be covered in hair. Later, depressed, she holds the shard of glass to her throat in front of a mirror, but she does not kill herself.
While at the clinic, a girl named Ghost – the granddaughter of Barbara, a severe burn victim at the hospital – shadows Brigitte and realizes her secret. Ghost slips Brigitte a werewolf comic book and begins to question her about lycanthropy. When Ghost notices that Brigitte's ears have become pointed, Brigitte cuts off the tips. Ghost attempts to slip Brigitte more monkshood, but Tyler prevents it. In despair at her rate of transformation, Brigitte allows Tyler to inject her. After the male werewolf tracks Brigitte to the clinic and kills a dog that Ghost had cared for, she and Ghost plan their escape. They crawl through air vents to reach the basement, where they encounter Beth-Ann, a patient who traded Tyler sex for drugs, shortly before the male werewolf kills and drags her away. While fleeing the werewolf through the old hospital's crematorium, Brigitte is mauled; her leg being broken and a piece of tile punctures her chest. Her wounds heal quickly as she and Ghost escape through the furnace, dousing their pursuer in gasoline and setting it on fire.
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