* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: While Trina is obviously immature and resorts to SlutShaming the Fitzgerald sisters, their rivalry is kicked off by Ginger saying things that are even worse about her. Trina likewise only ever responds to taunts or bad behavior from Ginger - especially when she hits her dog for barking at her.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_GDm_jcIvA main theme]] by Mike Shields [[StealthPun hits just the right note]] between comedy and tragedy, just like the film it's attached to.
** The official soundtrack album includes a nice selection of metal and hard rock songs, with tracks by such acts as Music/{{Hatebreed}}, Music/CradleOfFilth, and Music/KillswitchEngage.
* CultClassic: The film didn't make much money and isn't exactly a household name like other teen horror moves of its ilk, but it has a very dedicated fanbase.
* DracoInLeatherPants: A lot of fans seem to ignore the fact that even before being bitten, Ginger's an unpleasant, sullen girl (albeit one with a huge soft spot for her sister), and ''after'' being bitten, she's a bloodthirsty monster. The fact that she's very charismatic and charming in a weird, offbeat kind of way, and her actress is extremely beautiful certainly helps.
* FanPreferredCouple: The most popular fan pairing is easily Brigitte and Ginger, despite the fact that [[IncestYayShipping they're sisters]], and that Brigitte is given ShipTease with Sam.
* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Film/TheCraft'' and ''Film/JennifersBody'', possibly due their similar story and character beats - particularly with the protagonists' and antagonists' suggestive relationships - as well as having an LGBTFanbase. The three movies are considered something of a trio within their fanbases. What's more is that ''The Craft'' has Sarah '''Bailey''' and Nancy '''Downs''' as protagonists (the town in this film).
* HesJustHiding: Some fanfiction involves [[spoiler: Sam surviving Ginger's attack and being a werewolf himself.]]
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Two years later, Katharine Isabelle stars in the [[{{Film/Carrie 2002}} remake of]] ''{{Literature/Carrie}}'' - also about a troubled teenage girl who experiences a surge in power after an unusually late period (Carrie is seventeen, Ginger is sixteen). She also plays the exact opposite to Ginger - as a ditzy BetaBitch - and it's even her character who first spots the period.
** Katharine Isabelle and Creator/EmilyPerkins would play sisters again in ''Film/AnotherCinderellaStory''; a film about as different from ''Ginger Snaps'' as it's possible to be.
* IncestYayShipping: Ginger and Brigitte are siblings, but that doesn't stop anyone.
* JerkassWoobie: Ginger. She's a {{Jerkass}} through and through for most of the film, although less so to her sister, but as the full moon approaches, Ginger seems to grasp more and more what is happening to her, culminating in the scene where she attempts to [[spoiler:chop off her own tail]] and winds up crying in Brigitte's arms, consumed by fear. It's about the only point where the audience would be willing to risk giving Ginger a hug. [[spoiler:Which makes it all the more tragic when Ginger's new murderous side overrides her personality.]]
* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: So... much... [[IncestYayShipping Brigitte and Ginger]]. Again, like the later ''Jennifer's Body'', the subtext pretty much becomes text past a certain point.
* MoralEventHorizon: After one AccidentalMurder, and an offscreen killing with unclear circumstances, Ginger finally sheds what's left of her internal humanity when she brutally murders the janitor with no provocation apart from him stumbling upon a body, and has absolutely no remorse whatsoever. After that, the physical wolf transformation is merely a formality.
* {{Narm}}: The opening of the first film has a woman panicking and crying because the beast of Bailey Downs killed her dog. It's impossible to take seriously - and the rest of the neighborhood seems to agree, [[NoSympathy going about their business after giving her a passing glance]].
* NarmCharm: Pamela suggesting to fill the house with gas and burn it to the ground to cover up Ginger's crimes, completely sincerely. It should be ridiculous even by her standards, but it's so perfectly in character.
* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Before ''Film/JennifersBody'' was VindicatedByHistory, it received some complaints that its plot was too similar to that of ''Ginger Snaps''; a toxic female friendship, where the more outgoing one becomes a monster and has to [[spoiler: be killed by the less pretty one right after murdering her love interest]].
* ValuesDissonance: In the 2020s, a teenager using marijuana to deal with menstrual cramps would be far less demonized, to put it mildly.
* ValuesResonance: Ginger making advances on Sam is met with disgust from him, and it's clear that she's in the wrong for not backing off when he tells her to. Brigitte too reacts with revulsion, subverting DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale.
* TheWoobie:
** Brigitte is a lonely girl who's possibly dealing with depression or suicidal thoughts. She's bullied by her classmates, has two parents on the verge of splitting up and is considered a freak by everyone. Then she has to become Ginger's SecretKeeper (which is ''after'' the two get attacked by a wild animal, and she spends some time thinking her sister might be dying) and watch as she turns into a monster. By the third act, she has a front row seat to Ginger's murder spree.
** Pamela as well if you think about it. She's clearly going through a bad patch in her marriage, with her husband barely seeming to care about either her or their daughters. She tries to be nice and supportive to Ginger and Brigitte, but they just treat her with apathy. Then she discovers that they've killed someone and buried the body in her garden. And in the deleted scenes, she confessed to the police to take the fall for Trina's murder.
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