Ginger Snaps Back

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Ginger Snaps Back
Ginger Snaps Back Canadian DVD cover
Directed by	Grant Harvey
Produced by	Paula Devonshire Grant Harvey Steven Hoban Noah Segal Mark Smith
Written by	Stephen Massicotte Christina Ray
Starring	Katharine Isabelle Emily Perkins
Music by	Alex Khaskin
Cinematography	Michael Marshall
Editing by	Ken Filewych
Distributed by	Lions Gate Films
Release date(s)	2004
Running time	94 min.
Country	Canada
Language	English
Preceded by	Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning is a prequel to Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed. The film takes place in 19th century Canada and follows two sisters, relatives of the first two films' Fitzgerald sisters, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), who share the same names and a dead-on resemblance to their modern-day counterparts.

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In 1815, a trading fort located in the western Canadian wilderness, Fort Baileys, is besieged each night by abnormally large and ferocious wolf-like creatures. Dependent on yearly trade excursions with Indians to provide vital provisions over the winter, tension among the settlers is running high because the most recent trading party failed to return nearly two months previously. When the Fitzgerald sisters, orphaned after their parents drowned and stranded alone in the wilderness, are brought into the fort by a resident Indian, the settlers there regard them with high suspicion and scorn. The sisters are reluctantly permitted to stay, however, despite rapidly depleting rations within the fort. After Ginger is attacked by a young boy infected with the werewolf curse who had been concealed in the fort by his father, she and her sister Brigitte must deal with both the increasingly dangerous men in the fort and a cryptic prophesy about "the red and the black" that could decide both their destiny and that of their bloodline.