Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

Original film poster
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 (2000)
Followed by Ginger Snaps Back: the Beginning (2004)
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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed is a 2004 horror sequel to Ginger Snaps, written by Megan Martinl Cooney and directed by Brett Sullivan.

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

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[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, when she overdoses on the solution, and is found unconscious on the street, she is confined to a drug rehabilitation clinic.

[edit] Treatment

The opening credits play over Brigitte shaving all over her body, cutting her arm with a scalpel, then injecting herself with a dose of monkshood, cutting to Brigitte in a library, where the librarian Jeremy (Brendan Fletcher) hits on her. When she goes to check out her books, her library card has too many fines owing, and she just walks out, leaving the books behind.

Back in her motel room, she inspects her latest cut and records the time and state of healing on a page crammed with similar entries. Ginger (Katharine Isabelle), her late sister, appears to her as an apparition, saying, "You're healing faster. That shit's not a cure, you know - it just slows the process."

Brigitte shoots up another dose of monkshood, but immediately after, 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, and the werewolf drags 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 patient facility, located in the only operational section of a large, old hospital. She attempts, but fails to escape. When delivered to the clinic's director Alice (Janet Kidder), she pleads to be released, but to no avail. She does, however, manage to palm a piece of glass so she can continue to 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 favours, (his apparent modus operandi with other young women undergoing treatment in the clinic). Brigitte refuses, and orders him to leave her room.

As Brigitte's healing begins to accelerate, so does her rate of transformation. Ginger continues to appear, taunting Brigitte as she experiences the growing cravings for sex, and to kill, as she did previously. 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 Barbara, a severe burn victim who is a patient there. 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. In despair at her rate of transformation, Brigitte allows Tyler to inject her the following night.

By now, it is apparent the werewolf has found her again. After Ghost's dog is found dead and mutilated, Brigitte asks her where the corpse was found: the disused crematorium section of the hospital. Upon learning this, Brigitte says she must get out. Ghost offers to show her an escape route, but insists she be taken with Brigitte.

Brigitte escapes to the disused crematorium, in the basement, by crawling through air 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 after, Ghost arrives and says the escape route is where Beth-Ann was dragged away to. Brigitte and Ghost proceed, but are separated as the werewolf attacks. Clashing with the beast, Brigitte's leg is broken by the werewolf, but her transformation is so advanced, she heals almost immediately, and makes good her escape after burning the beast in the crematorium.

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 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 stairs, her face half transformed, as she 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.

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