This installment, a prequel set nearly 2 centuries before the other two movies, isn’t as good as the original or the insanely good sequel, but as a fan of these movies, I just can’t get enough of watching these two girls. Looking at the trilogy as a whole, they’re really the only major consistent force in the three movies’ making – the director and writers for all three are always different, yet Ginger and Brigette always come over as the exact same characters. Emily Perkins and Katherine Isabelle are just amazing.

Though the setting is early 19th century, the two girls are pretty much as we know them – early on, Ginger glances round and deadpans, “These people are f*cked,” and the girls’ basic attitude is particularly anachronistic, kind of bemused, kind of terrified, fairly omniscient of the situation they’re in.

The special effects are saved up for a gory climax, and when they come, they’re good. Since the story pretty much takes place in the snowy wilderness there’s no call for big period sets – it’s basically a small camp and good costumes. Hence, it’s one of the better looking low-budget period movies. Funny I was saying recently, reviewing Gosford Park, how I don’t like period costume type movies. I guess this is an exception (for the record, I like The Age of Innocence among others: just so no-one assumes I’m a splatter hound, lol).

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