Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
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Directed by	Brett Sullivan
Produced by	Peter Block Jason Constantine Paula Devonshire John Fawcett Grant Harvey Steven Hoban Jason Lee Noah Segal Mark Smith
Written by	Megan Martin
Starring	Emily Perkins Tatiana Maslany Eric Johnson Janet Kidder Katharine Isabelle Brendan Fletcher
Music by	Kurt Swinghammer
Cinematography	Henry Less Gavin Smith
Editing by	Michele Conroy
Distributed by	Lion's Gate 20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	94 min.
Language	English
Preceded by	Ginger Snaps Back: the Beginning Ginger Snaps
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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed is a 2004 horror sequel to Ginger Snaps, written by Megan Martinl Cooney and was directed by Brett Sullivan.

A prequel, Ginger Snaps Back, was filmed back-to-back with Unleashed and was released in 2004.

[edit] Plot

Set sometime after the events of the original film, Brigitte (Emily Perkins) uses an extract of monkshood to fight the effects of the lycanthropy that transformed her sister into a werewolf. However, she overdoses on the herbal solution, is found passed out, and is confined to a drug rehabilitation clinic.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The opening credits play over Brigitte shaving all over her body, cutting her arm with a scalpel, and then injecting herself with a dose of monkshood. The first scene is Brigitte in the library, where the librarian Jeremy (Brendan Fletcher) hits on her. When she goes to check out her library card has too many fines, and she just walks out. Back in her motel room, she checks her cut and records the time and the state of healing on a page that is filled with similar entries. The ghost, or more accurately Brigitte's mental projection, of her late sister Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) appears and says "You're healing faster. That shit's not a cure, you know - it just slows the process." Brigitte shoots up another dose of monkshood to the dismay of Ginger. Just after the injection, Brigitte senses the presence of the male werewolf (most likely the boy infected in the previous film; although this is never confirmed nor hinted at through the course of the story) that has been stalking her. She hastily packs and opens the door to find Jeremy with her library books. However, the additional dose has pushed her over the edge. Jeremy gets her in his car and is about to drive her to get help, when the driver side window is smashed in and the werewolf pulls him from the car. Brigitte stumbles down the street and collapses in the snow.

She awakens in a combination rehab clinic for drug abusing girls and chronic care patients that is located in the only operational section of an old hospital. She fails to escape and attempts to convince the clinic's director Alice (Janet Kidder) to release her, but to no avail. She does manage to palm a piece of glass so that she can measure her healing rate. Tyler (Eric Johnson) a worker at the clinic visits her at night and offers her some monkshood in exchange for sexual favors, similar to what he offers the other young females undergoing treatments in the clinic. Brigitte rebukes his offer and orders him to leave.

Brigitte's healing begins to accelerate, and she slowly undergoes transformation. She starts to crave sex and murder. Ginger appears to taunt her for her urges, which were the same she had experienced prior. After Brigitte's hand grows a pad like a paw, she takes her shard of glass and holds it to her throat. However, she does not kill herself. She simply cuts off the point of her ear instead.

During this time, Brigitte's only friend is a young girl named Ghost (Tatiana Maslany), the granddaughter of her burn victim grandmother, Barbara. Ghost slips Brigitte a comic book with a werewolf in it and starts to question her about lycanthropy. She is the one who points out Brigitte's ear to her. Ghost then tries to slip her monkshood, but is foiled by Tyler. Brigitte lets Tyler inject her the next night because of her hand and changing eyes.

By now, the other werewolf has found her. It kills Ghost's dog and Brigitte asks her where the corpse was found. The corpse was discovered in the old crematorium section of the hospital; upon learning this Brigitte says that she must get out and Ghost says she knows a way but that Brigitte must take her along in exchange for her help.

Brigitte escapes to the abandoned crematorium by crawling through the vents following Ghost's trail marks. There, Brigitte meets Beth-Ann (Pascale Hutton) who is high on drugs that she just received in exchange for sex with Tyler. Beth-Ann is killed and dragged away by the werewolf. Shortly thereafter, Ghost arrives and says that the way to go is the same way that Beth-Ann was dragged. Brigitte and Ghost descend into the basement and make a narrow escape wherein Brigitte's leg is broken by the werewolf.

Ghost drives them to a gas station, where Brigitte tends to her wounds and Ghost buys chips. They go to Ghost's grandmother's house and sleep. The next day, they arrange for Tyler to bring monkshood to the gas station, but when Brigitte wanders inside she discovers the attendant has been slain. While she was away, Tyler had arrived and got Ghost's car. Brigitte dashes back and drives off. Back at the house, Brigitte's body rejects the monkshood and Tyler worriedly calls Alice.

Ghost tricks Brigitte into thinking that Tyler abused her. Brigitte locks Tyler outside, and he is killed by the werewolf. Alice arrives, and is mistaken for the werewolf and attacked by Ghost, who is wielding Barbara's shotgun. Alice and Ghost together take refuge in the attic. Brigitte's transformation is almost complete, when the werewolf enters the house. She lures him into a room, and, when Ghost distracts the werewolf by dropping something, Brigitte stabs him. The werewolf bites her on the arm. They struggle and after she repeatedly bashing its head with a curling rock, they fall into the basement, which has been previously arranged into a make-shift pungee pit using a set of mattress springs to hold a wide variety of sharp and pointy objects. Ghost hits Alice with a hammer and descends the steps to peer into the basement. Brigitte crawls up the the stairs, and with her face half transformed, begs Ghost to kill her. Instead, Ghost locks her in the basement.

The film ends with Ghost illustrating a comic page of herself as a powerful warrior with a werewolf pet. Ghost narrates that Brigitte is getting stronger in the basement and is waiting to be unleashed on Ghost's enemies.