YMMV / Ginger Snaps

• Alternative Character Interpretation: While Trina is obviously immature and resorts to Slut-Shaming 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.
• Awesome Music:
  • The main theme by Mike Shields 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 Hatebreed, Cradle of Filth, and Killswitch Engage.
• Cult Classic: 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.
• Draco in Leather Pants: 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.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: The most popular fan pairing is easily Brigitte and Ginger, despite the fact that they're sisters, and that Brigitte is given Ship Tease with Sam.
• Friendly Fandoms: With The Craft and Jennifer's Body, possibly due their similar story and character beats - particularly with the protagonists' and antagonists' suggestive relationships - as well as having an LGBT Fanbase. 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).
• He's Just Hiding: Some fanfiction involves Sam surviving Ginger's attack and being a werewolf himself.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Two years later, Katharine Isabelle stars in the remake of 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 Beta Bitch - and it's even her character who first spots the period.
  • Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins would play sisters again in Another Cinderella Story; a film about as different from Ginger Snaps as it's possible to be.
• Incest Yay Shipping: Ginger and Brigitte are siblings, but that doesn't stop anyone.
• Jerkass Woobie: 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 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. Which makes it all the more tragic when Ginger's new murderous side overrides her personality.
• Les Yay: So... much... Brigitte and Ginger. Again, like the later Jennifer's Body, the subtext pretty much becomes text past a certain point.
• Moral Event Horizon: After one Accidental Murder, 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, going about their business after giving her a passing glance.
• Narm Charm: 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.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Before Jennifer's Body was Vindicated by History, 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 be killed by the less pretty one right after murdering her love interest.
• Values Dissonance: In the 2020s, a teenager using marijuana to deal with menstrual cramps would be far less demonized, to put it mildly.
• Values Resonance: 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 Double Standard Rape: Female on Male.
• The Woobie:
  • 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 Secret-Keeper (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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