10 Best Horror Movies For Virgins
8. Ginger Snaps
Rather than go with the tried and tested classics like the various incarnations of The Wolf Man, or An American Werewolf in London, we're keeping the werewolf genre alive here with the slightly more fun, if not at times just as gnarly, Ginger Snaps.
The 2000 movie features genre faves Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins as a pair of small-town sisters with a morbid fascination about the joyous subject of death.
In the first act, Isabelle's Ginger - the elder of the siblings - is bitten by a mysterious creature. And from there, we see this teenager's descent from brooding youth to blood-thirsty beast.
Of course, Ginger Snaps isn't your run-of-the-mill lycanthrope picture, for this is a film anchored by two powerhouse performances from Messrs Isabelle and Perkins, and these are far from the feeble female characters portrayed in similar films of decades prior. Additionally, a fresh spin is put on this horror subgenre by using the transformation into a werewolf as a metaphor for puberty.
While Ginger Snaps may not quite hit the heights of John Landis' An American Werewolf in London or Lon Chaney Jr.'s 1941 take on The Wolf Man, the film is a brilliant first dip into the werewolf subgenre for those new to all things horror.