25 Best Werewolf Movies Ever Made

As we have seen from the likes of Wildling and When Animals Dream, the once largely male-dominated role of the werewolf has had a bit of a teen female makeover in the twenty-first century. Much of that can be dated back to this box office flop but critical and cult favourite from 2000.

Ginger Snaps may not have been the first film to realise that the "time of the month" element of a werewolf story lends itself more obviously to a female puberty analogy than the young males of I Was A Teenage Werewolf and Teen Wolf. It was, however, the one that really leant into it with deliciously satirical relish. The movie was, after all, sold on the tagline: "They don't call it the curse for nothing."

The film has important points to make about puberty, female bodies, sex and sisterhood, which it achieves through a David Cronenberg-style slow body horror metamorphosis and a dark streak of black comedy.

With the morbid outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, enjoying pastimes like death scene photoshoots, there's a strong sense that they are the only ones who truly understand each other. All of that makes it more poignant than the average werewolf angst when Ginger's transformation drives them apart.