Karen Walton

Well, I mean, I feel like Stephen maybe spoke a little bit about this earlier, but when I read, I read the pilot back in the fall of 2024, because that's when we did an initial scouting trip before it was greenlit.

And what I was so impressed with was what the writers, what Jesse, what Perry, what Karen, what everyone achieved on the page was what I thought was a real, authentic Newfoundland voice, like capturing our culture in just the specific ways that kind of some of these nods only Newfoundlanders will understand and I was so excited by that because it's not trope it's just trying to reflect what is real about our culture and just like and and making a show about that and I think that's so interesting because I feel like more and more I'm hoping just globally in general People want to see real stories of real cultures around the world and not just like generic stories that appeal to the masses.

And I feel like finally, like networks and studios are taking are are listening to that and taking a risk.

And I hope and I hope we see that like trending in the future.

that make the world feel real, but also extremely Newfoundland.

And I couldn't be prouder of what this team has done that we're talking to today and everybody else associated with it.

But that was the plan from day one with Jesse and Karen Walton and Natty Zavitz and myself in the room and then putting together this amazing team to actually bring it to fruition.

That was originally the plan and it happened so beautifully.

one of my other copies does, and that is where things get interesting, but we'll get to that in due time.

So starting off, Ginger Snaps from 2000, directed by John Fawcett, written by Karen Walton and John Fawcett.

Less than one year apart and attending the same grade in high school, the morbid Fitzgerald sisters, Mousy Bridget and Headstrong Ginger, have always done everything together.

All this changes on the night of Ginger's first period when she is attacked by a creature responsible for the brutal slaughter of a number of local dogs.

Something about a fight with the missing girl? What?

Watch it.

So I listened to the commentary by Karen Walton who wrote the screenplay and she said she had about one million reasons not to do this movie.

John Fawcett approached her with the idea of doing a teen girl werewolf film and her first reaction was, are you nuts? This was due to a lot of reasons.

But even before that, of course, the writing starts, which is the engine of the whole thing.

We started that two and a half years ago with a great writing team with Jesse, of course, Jesse McKeown, and Karen Walton, who did Ginger Snaps, and Natty Zavitz.

It's been a long time coming.

So the fact that the whole province has been buzzing about it and it's getting so much press here, we're really grateful about that.

Anyway.

So in terms of the features, we have audio commentary from director John Fawcett and writer Karen Walton.

Really great script by Karen Walton.

Featured include ginger snaps, blood, teeth and fur, growing pains, puberty in horror films, a making of featurette.

cast auditions and rehearsals, creation of the beast being John Fawcett interview, um, production design, artwork, deleted scenes, TV spots, theatrical trailers.