Ginger Snaps

In the generic Canadian suburb of Bailey Downs live Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), 15-year-old sisters committed to introversion, menstruation anxiety, and terminal misanthropy. Three years late for their first period, they spend their time staging gruesome death scenes ...more

More often than not, the teen horror genre is packed with used ideas and paint-by-number bimbos offering nothing more than targets on their well-developed bodies and underdeveloped brains. It's good, then, to see a feminist coming-of-age film like Ginger Snaps come out of nowhere and throw those stereotypes in the toilet. Centering the movie around two of the best young female leads since Heavenly Creatures, writer Karen Walton brings teen angst to a new level with the characters of Ginger and ...more