Ginger Snaps

Menarche arrives and with it the beginning of the inevitable cycle. Every twenty-eight days, the body undergoes a painful transformation, which brings a strange hunger and shed of blood. To make things worse, on the night of her first menstruation, sixteen years old Ginger is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger’s wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself. There are numerous myths about werewolves, redheads and menstruation; the Canadian creative duo Karen Walton and John Fawcett decided to link them all in this biting story of the Fitzgerald sisters. Their whip-smart teen-horror film re-genders the werewolf myth as a hilariously icky exploration of the monstrous feminine, succeeding on every level: character, plot, and yes, the blood and gore. This isn't just a good horror movie, it's a good movie. Period.