Ginger Snaps

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Soaked in blood and sarcasm, John Fawcett’s dark Canadian horror-comedy Ginger Snaps charts the intimate friendship between two sisters in suburban Ontario. Contemptuous of normalcy, the girls revel in their outsider status, but after Ginger (Katherine Isabelle) is cursed with her first period and an unwelcome werewolf attack, her younger sister Brigitte (Emily Perkins) will do anything to save her. A canonical example of menstrual horror coming of age films, the film’s sharp wit explores the very limits of the idea that “hell is a teenage girl,” pushing social norms and gendered expectations to their bloody limits.