Gingerwolf refers to the individual creature that Ginger Fitzgerald has turned into after she completed her transformation into a werewolf. The name is a portmanteau of "Ginger" and "werewolf" and only appears in the film's closing credits.
Description[]
The Gingerwolf is a pale and almost hairless four-legged creature, reminiscent of a wolf with muted canine-like traits, humanoid extremities, exaggerated muscular features and a wider build. The snout is like that of a wolf's, with pointed ears, and the spine is notably visible. She has blue eyes and is almost hairless, with strands of white hair around her neck but most of the skin is exposed. The Gingerwolf still has vestigial human breasts on its chest, while also having wolf-like teats on the belly.
History[]
Ginger completes her transformation inside Sam's truck during the ride back home where Brigitte and Sam wanted to prepare more monkshood serum to cure Ginger's affliction. After the van arrived in the garage, the Gingerwolf escapes into the house and starts to trash the interior. When it temporarily disappears from the ground floor, Brigitte and Sam prepare the serum in the pantry. After completing it, they hatch a plan to lure Ginger into the living room, but as soon as Sam opens the pantry door, the creature violently grabs him, causing blood to seep through the door gap. She then drags him into the basement, leaving a bloody trail behind. When Brigitte finds both in the hallway outside the laundry room, Sam is bleeding out and dying. This is the moment where the Gingerwolf is first seen in the film. Brigitte tries to appease the werewolf by trying to eat Sam's blood but when she has to throw up, Ginger kills Sam with a quick bite to his neck and starts to attack Brigitte, who flees behind the furnace and then to the crawlspace under the basement staircase where she retrieves the syringe with the serum. Back in the bedroom she barricades all the doors and retrieves the knife that she left in a drawer earlier in the day. When walking past the bathroom door, she realizes that the Gingerwolf was inside all along. Ginger now slowly approaches Brigitte who backs up, holding the knife and the syringe in her hands. Suddenly Ginger jumps onto a bed and then towards her sister, landing in the drawn knife which is now stuck in the Gingerwolf's chest. As the monster does its last breaths, Brigitte comes near again and embraces her dying sister.
Background information[]
The Gingerwolf was already envisioned by John Fawcett as a hairless almost skeletal creature years before production began. Special makeup effects artist Paul Jones originally planned to realize the creature as a puppet but the intended movements made it necessary to use a suit instead. The hairless design proved to be a challenge, as hair or fur could typically be used to hide the seams and gaps between the different components of the suit. Since the werewolf was practically bald the suit had to be constructed as one seamless piece. Only the head was a separate part. It was necessary to conceal the gap at the neck with hair after all. During shooting, suit performer Nick Nolan had to pause regularly as the suit did not allow for easy heat dissipation.
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When John Fawcett first saw the completed suit on the set he was impressed and shot it from all directions[1], while Paul Jones was experienced enough to know that a suit could only be shown sparingly in the film. In post-production, John Fawcett had to realize this himself.[2]
References[]
- ↑ John Fawcett, director's commentary for Ginger Snaps
- ↑ Ginger Snaps: Blood Teeth and Fur