SXSW Film Picks
Fri., March 9, 2001
Ginger Snaps
D: John Fawcett; with Emily Perkins, Katharine Isabelle, Mimi Rogers. (35mm, 107 min.)Werewolves, death, and menstruation. No wonder some gals call it "the curse." This low-budget Canadian horror movie is a product of the post-Buffy age, so it comes as no surprise that the director is a veteran of Xena: The Warrior Princess and Femme Nikita. With a funny but serious twist on the same old bloody conventions, Ginger Snaps plays it both ways as we get to simultaneously stare at young girls' butts while recoiling in horror at the lyncanthropic tails poking through the seams of their panties. (CC, 3/10, 9:30pm; CC, 3/14, 9:30pm; Alamo, 3/17, 2:45pm) -- Marjorie Baumgarten
