So what do you do when you want to complete a trilogy but the two main characters in your franchise have been irreversibly turned into werewolves? You take them both back to the nineteenth century of course!

We join the Fitzgerald sisters travelling through the harsh Canadian wilderness following a shipwreck. They come upon an old indian woman who warns them that something terrible might happen, and then Brigette is rescued from a wolf trap by a hunter who takes them to a nearby fort. There is something very strange about the occupants of the almost-deserted fort, and they seem to live in constant fear of something outside ... and what are those bloody claw marks on the front gate? Soon the sisters discover what's going on, and find that their own fate, their own legacy, is somehow connected with those creatures out in the woods ...

As you can probably imagine, the atmosphere here is just terrific. A group of unique characters living together in this fort, besieged by a pack of werewolves, in a world that feels like hell has just frozen over and grown some trees. There is, of course, tension within the fort as well as outside it. Nobody trusts the deadly Indian hunter, a half-crazed preacher is ready to sacrifice everyone to save them from hell, a cruel officer seems set on making Ginger's life a misery and even the good-hearted commander harbours a dark secret in the bowels of the fort. The cast plays these parts extremely well, and there are a lot of great supporting actors here, the most memorable being Nathaniel Arcand, JR Bourne and Hugh Dillon. Also Brendan Fletcher, who played Jeremy in Unleashed, returns here as a different character.

Historically, it's not the most accurate film, but in the context of the trilogy it doesn't matter. Some of the language they use, often for comic effect, is certainly very modern day, and some other liberties have been taken for dramatic reasons. It's the same basic plot as Unleashed, with a group of people stalked by a werewolf while one of them turns into a werewolf themselves. Except here, they are in fact besieged by a whole pack of werewolves, which means more werewolves than we've ever seen before in the previous movies (essentially there was only one in each). The final scenes of this movie will blow your mind.

In some ways this is even my favourite in the trilogy, and it is certainly a welcome addition to the Ginger Snaps saga. If you like the previous movies, then definitely check this one out.

I consider the first two "Ginger Snaps" films to be a gift from God. They were darkly humorous, sexy,twisted (or as Ginger says "Wicked"), and frighteningly realistic. I believed that the events in those films could happen. Then Liongate does what they always do with a good series and screws it up.

"Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning", apart from being one of the most unintentionally funny titles in film history is also the lamest and uneeded excuse for a prequel.Basically, it follows the plot of the original, except they set it sometime in the 1300s or 1600s. After Ginger is bitten, you know all to well that all hell is about to break loose. When Ginger snaps, people are gonna die.

There are some good stuff in the film. The lead actress are great and as sexy as ever. The werewolves are above average for a low budget flick. Once again, Ginger looks strangly hot in the pre-wolf make-up towards the end. The actors are good. The leeches are a neat idea.The ending of the film screws this prequel from getting three stars. Though, I have to admit, it is not as bad as the ending to the remake of "The Wicker Man". Not that was one of the worst endings since "The Village."

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The Wolf The Ginger Snaps movies seem to have set out to prove that quadruped werewolves don't have to look like poor guys crawling around on all fours in a big dog suit -- they can work. And here, in the final installment of the trilogy, it seems they may have finally achieved that. The filmmakers seem more confident with their werewolf effects this time around, as we get to see much more of the beasts than we've ever seen in the previous movies. And man, do they look good. The director Grant Harvey was a bit concerned about their movement -- guys crawling around on all fours can't achieve the same mobility as wolves, regardless of their own dexterity. But thanks to good editing, the movement of the quadraped is the most convincing I've ever seen (aside from CGI, but that's just cheating). As I said, the final attack on the fort ranks as one of the all-time finest moments in any werewolf movie (see bottom photo). The other effects such as the guts and the human/werewolf hybrids are also very good -- particularly the character dubbed "wolf boy" (see third photo down). At one point they appeared to introduce that old idea that if you kill the werewolf that bit you, the curse will be lifted. This immeadiately struck me as being out of place in the Ginger Snaps universe, where all of the werewolf stuff has adhered to the harsh rules of chemistry and biology, and they've never introduced a mythical or supernatural element. But thankfully it turns out to be a misconception on the part of Ginger, and the curse remains uncurable. Yay! I mean, err ...

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