Just when you feel like all of the horror franchises are covered, Second Sight Films pulls a doozy out of the bag.
Here we have the Ginger Snaps trilogy united on Blu-ray for the first time.
This was particularly exciting for those of us who have found the second and third films quite hard to track down over the years.
To get you up to speed, Ginger Snaps is a cross between a werewolf film and a teen drama, with Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle playing sisters having to deal with all of high school hoopa alongside burgeoning lycanthropy.
Although, on plenty of must-see lists, Ginger Snaps still feels whispered about rather than shouted about. Here it gets the deluxe treatment with a brand new commentary from the Gayly Dreadful team, plus making-of featurettes, two more commentaries, and in-depth interviews with the director, producer, and storyboard artist Vincenzo Natali, who went on to work on the Hannibal TV series.
One of the highlights of the disc is a visual essay from Stacey Abbot entitled Canadian Uncanny, which delves deeper into the themes of Ginger Snaps.
The sequels have a more standard features package but this is not to discount the amount of goodies on offer. Commentaries, deleted scenes, and featurettes with both Beginning and Back directors are here and prove very insightful.
When it comes to the films themselves, we have Ginger Snaps Unleashed, a straight sequel which has a nastier tone than the original whereas Ginger Snaps: The Beginning takes us back to the 19th century and explores the werewolf lore and is arguably considered to be the strongest of the series.
The main package also comes with a 112-page booklet with seven essays from various voices within the horror genre, but I can’t go into detail on this as I had the discs to review not the entire package.
The Ginger Snaps Trilogy boxset is released on 30 October 2023 from Second Sight Films.
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