Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald hate their home town, their schoolmates, their parents ... basically everyone and everything, in fact, except each other. Still sharing a bedroom despite being sixteen and fifteen respectively, their principal form of entertainment is staging elaborate photographic tableaux of their own deaths.
Said deaths start feeling rather too real, however, when they are attacked by a violent, wolf-like creature one night. Ginger is savagely mauled by the beast before they can get free of it, and even then they only manage to escape when the creature pursues so single-mindedly that it runs right into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
But at least the crisis is over, right? Well, maybe not. Ginger's wounds heal suspiciously quickly, and her behaviour changes in ways that probably aren't solely related to the fact that she's (finally and belatedly) experiencing her first period. Just what kind of creature was it that attacked the two young women, and is Ginger fated to become one of them?
This Canadian horror film puts a lot of trust in its two leads: Ginger or Brigitte or both are in almost every scene in the movie, and are required to go through a wild ride of emotions and experiences in the process. The actors also have to make us care about these two characters, who really aren't very pleasant at first. So kudos to them for pulling it off, as I was definitely invested in the fate of the Fitzgerald sisters by the time we reached the film's climax.
Some of the monster effects show up the film's relatively low budget, but that minor quibble aside, this is a good little horror film.
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