The premise of the film is using werewolfism as a metaphor for a young girl going through puberty.
The main characters are Ginger and Brigitte Fitzgerald, played by Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins, who are "suburban goth girl outcasts" who are obsessed with death and suicide to the point that they set up faux suicides and photograph it. They have also made a pact to die together if they don't get out of their town saying, "Out by sixteen or dead on the scene, but together forever."
While out in a park one night with her sister, Ginger begins here first cycle without truly knowing it and is then attacked by something large and dog-like, which turns out to be a werewolf. Slowly but surely Ginger begins to change, starting with a surge of new-found sex appeal as well as some animal-like hairs growing from the scratches on her shoulder from the werewolf, which had started to miraculously healed by the time they got home after they attack.
Trying to help her sister as she changes, Brigitte comes into contact with a local drug dealer named Sam, played by Kris Lemche who some of you would recognize from the short lived TV show Joan of Arcadia as the 'Cute Boy God' and from Final Destination 3 (2006). Sam hit the original werewolf with his car as the sisters were running away from it. Because of this, Sam does believe Brigitte when she needs help, only she lies and says that it is she, not Ginger, who is turning into a werewolf.
As Ginger slowly transforms, which leads to several deaths (human and animal) as well as the infection of a "love" interest of Ginger's, Brigitte try to contain Ginger while she and Sam try to find an antidote. This erupts in a final struggle on Halloween night, a month after Ginger is attacked.
I don't want to give too much away so I'll just leave it at that, but I was pleasantly surprised at this movie. While I wouldn't put it as "scary," but then again it takes a lot to actually scare me with movies, it was very good and rather creepy.
So another actor that many of you would recognize is Mimi Rogers from such movies as the remake of Lost in Space (1998) and as Mrs. Kennsington in Austin Powers (1997). I even found the character of Jason, played by Jesse Moss, familiar and after looking him up on IMDb I found out that the only thing I recognized him from his small role in Final Destination 3.
One tid-bit that I found interesting is that the director refused to use CGI for the monster special effects, choosing to use actual make-up and prosthetics, and this was done very well. I had read this bit of trivia before I actually saw the movie so I knew that it was prosthetics, and there is also the fact that it is of a werewolf and it is very hard to find one of those that can act! Ha Ha Ha!
But anyways overall I found the film very good and I'm glad that i finally got around to watching it. I highly recogment it!
For more information on the film go here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210070/
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