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No. Ginger Sanps: Unleashed is based on a script by screenwriter Megan Martin. It is a sequel to Ginger Snaps (2000). A third Ginger Snaps film, Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004), was made as a prequel.

Those who have seen all three movies recommend that you see the first movie, Ginger Snaps (2000), before watching this movie. Ginger Snaps tells how Ginger was made a werewolf and also details her and Brigitte's search for a cure. However, Ginger Snaps: The Beginning is a stand-alone movie and does not need to be seen in order to understand the events in either Ginger Snaps or Ginger Snaps: Unleashed.

His identity is unknown. All Brigitte [Emily Perkins] knows is that it's a male and it wants to mate with her. Some viewers have suggested that it was Jason [Jesse Moss] from Ginger Snaps (2000) but, apparently, the commentary on the DVD denies this. Others have suggested Sam [Kris Lemche], also from Ginger Snaps, however he was pretty messed up at the end of that movie. Still others think it might be the werewolf that bit Ginger [Katharine Isabelle]. The most likely explanation is that there are other werewolves in and around Bailey Downs, and this one was attracted to Brigitte like a male dog follows the scent of a female dog in heat.

Monkshood [Aconitum lycotonum]. Brigitte and Sam developed it in Ginger Snaps as a cure for lycanthropy, but it proved to work only to slow down the transformation rather than cure it. Consequently, Brigitte has to keep injecting herself with it.

She O.D.ed on the monkshood and was admitted to the clinic as a drug user.

In the DVD commentary, she is referred to as being 13 years old. [Tatiana Maslany] was actually 19 years old at the time she played Ghost. She was chosen to play the role because she was shorter than Emily Perkins and had a look of innocence. To make her look even younger and more innocent, Tatiana had her naturally-dark hair dyed Barbie Doll blonde and her teeth fitted with braces. Before her character was given the name "Ghost," she was known on the set as "Newt" [from Aliens] (1986).

Brigitte and Ghost escape from the drug rehab clinic and go to Ghost's grandmother's house to hide out from the werewolf that is trying to mate with Brigitte. The transformation is coming upon her faster and faster, but without a hypodermic needle, she is unable to get the monkshood into her bloodstream. Ghost calls Tyler (Eric Johnson) and asks him to bring them some needles. Tyler injects Brigitte, but she has a strong reaction to the monkshood. Tyler panics and calls Alice (Janet Kidder) at the clinic. When Brigitte next sees Ghost, she is huddled in the attic and claims that Tyler raped her. Angry at Tyler for hurting Ghost, Brigitte asks him to put more gas in the generator. While he is outside, Brigitte locks the door and Tyler is attacked by the werewolf, who has tracked Brigitte down again. Brigitte and Ghost build a trap in the cellar, using the springs of a mattress to hold a variety of spikes, horns, and other sharp objects. They hear a noise and fear the werewolf is breaking into the house, but it's just Alice come to take Ghost back to the clinic. Brigitte notices a sign on the wall that reads, "Don't smoke or I might croak," and realizes that Ghost's grandmother was a nonsmoker and couldn't have been burned from a fire that started because she was smoking in bed, the story that Ghost made up. She confronts Ghost who admits to also making up the story about Tyler raping her. She simply wanted to get rid of him because she was afraid that he was going to take Brigitte away from her.

The werewolf suddenly breaks into the house. Ghost and Alice take refuge in the attic while Brigitte lures the werewolf away. As he is nuzzling her, Brigitte stabs him and then repeatedly bashes him with a curling stone until he goes limp. As Brigitte is checking him to see whether he's dead, he revives and lunges at her. Both of them go tumbling into the cellar. When Alice bends over to look, Ghost bashes her head with a hammer, and Alice tumbles into the cellar, too. Almost completely transformed, Brigitte pleads with Ghost to kill her, but Ghost simply closes the door, locking Brigitte in the cellar. In the final scene, Ghost is in the attic working on a drawing that depicts herself as a fierce warrior with a pet werewolf whom she is going to get to kill everyone she doesn't like, beginning with her grandmother who is soon to be coming home from the hospital.