484: Werewolfism

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

It’s almost Halloween and we’re watching a horror movie! As recommended by Steve Lutz 475 episodes ago, it’s a Canadian tale of girls becoming women, and women becoming wolves: “Ginger Snaps.” We discuss parallels to “Buffy”, connections to “Orphan Black”, and ultimately whether this film can live up to its feminist aspirations or if it’s yet another case where a girl is punished for becoming a woman—er, werewolf.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 484, October 2019.
0:11.2	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:13.1	I am your host, Jason Snell, and in this episode, we're going to be talking about a horror movie.
0:18.6	What?
0:19.3	Wait, are you sure?
0:20.6	It's shock to
0:22.0	Chain rattle, chain rattle, chain rattle.
0:24.3	All the chains are rattling, and I thought maybe.
0:28.0	So what, here's the thing is I don't love horror movies.
0:30.8	I don't, I don't.
0:31.7	You don't say.
0:32.5	My good friend, Steve Lutz, recommended a horror movie.
0:36.0	And I thought, you know, that sounds like a good idea.
0:38.1	Maybe I should watch that horror movie and we could talk about it as part of like our
0:41.6	Halloween sort of themed thing. And so Steve recommended it to me.
0:46.8	Nine years ago. In episode nine. And here in episode 484, we're going to talk about ginger snaps a 2000 Canadian horror film
1:02.2	directed by and written by some of the people who would go on to bring you the TV series
1:07.3	Orphan Black. It is coming from the era where Buffy the Vampire Slayer was on the air.
1:12.5	I feel like that is relevant a little bit in how the tone of ginger snaps is there.
1:18.7	So anyway, I have here, I have some horror movie aficionados.
1:21.3	I have Canadian and I have a werewolf.
1:25.1	And they're all available to talk about aspects of this movie, which is great.
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