Essay On Ginger Snaps

Ginger Snaps is a Canadian horror movie that features not only werewolves but it also includes an underlying message meant to police the sexuality and provocativeness of women. The film begins with two sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, who are ostracized due to their shared morbid fascination with the concept of death. This is shown by the fact that they make an oath to each other that they will be “out by sixteen or dead in a scene, but together forever.” Inevitably, this does not hold true as only Ginger ends up getting her ‘scene’, leaving the Brigitte to remain in the world on her own.
Ginger, begins the movie as a dark, brooding teenager, but that changes soon enough. Jason McCardy asks her out after school one day, threatening her and her sister’s promise of ‘not becoming average’. In Trencansky’s article she states that generally in horror films an “adolescent[s] sexual curiosity [becomes] deserving [of] immediate, violent retribution” (64). This occurs later in the evening. Ginger gets her crimson curse and then is later mauled by a werewolf, which therefore curses her in a different fashion as well. The werewolf attack should have killed her as it left her with deep gashes, however it

She used to have little interest in the men around her, but now she cannot control herself around them. She begins to dress more provocatively, craving the attention she receives. The fact that her period and the werewolf bite occur almost simultaneously to one another perpetuates the idea that Ginger’s maturation and new found sexuality is not only a danger to herself but to other’s around her as well. It is not a coincidence that the two events coincide with one another which supports that there deeper meaning emitting beneath the grain. The film is essentially creating a metaphor comparing a meat-craving werewolf to being a man-craving