Unless you've heard about it from someone this is a very esoteric film. It only surface once in a very long while on the BBC late at night. The first time a caught a moment of it I thought it was a TV programme about teenagers and the supernatural world, like Buffy only it seemed to have bad effects (like Buffy) but a strong undercurrent of intensity. I only caught it by chance but thankfully remembered it's name.
Lately, sometime a year ago it was on TV again. This time I was waiting. After my first snatch glance I didn't know if it would be worthwhile. Fortunately I stuck with it.
The story is about two sisters in a small Canadian town being terrorised by the 'Beast of Bailey Downs.' This however takes second place to their obsession with death. As one of what seems like the latest of a series of stunts they submit a series of suicide photos showing them graphically killed in a class project. One night the Beast catches up with them and their lives start to turn.
This is quite a cool take on the supernatural genre. It's not a big action film of the likes of Underworld or even Blood and Chocolate. Instead it looks at the effect encountering the world of the supernatural has personally. Brigitte and Ginger are bonded like few others and the effect their exposure has on their relationship is one of the main themes of the film. Of course the effect is also the violent and esoteric testing events that follow.
The mood of the film is quite quiet. They don't try to overdramatise it with loud music. They let the events do most of the talking although the music does underscore and set the mood of the film nicely. I like the way they handle the supernatural aspect of the film too, rather than being empirical like in several other films like it they take it for what it is.
