8 Disturbing Horror Movie Monsters (And What They Represent)

Telling the tale of two outcast sisters Brigitte and Ginger, the latter gets her first period and then attacked by a vicious creature all in one go. Talk about a bad night eh? Not long afterwards, she starts changing into someone - or something - completely different, slowly revealing that the cause of her transformation is linked to the very monster that injured her on the night of an eerie full moon.

Turns out the only moon-dwelling beasties around Bailey Downs are werewolves, and lycanthropy is set to take her over too.

Sprouting hair where there was none before, undergoing rapid mood changes, and full of cramps that she tries to treat with sex, Ginger's transformation into a monster parallels a young woman's 'journey into adulthood': her menstruation a cover for her deeply unsettling descent into beastdom.

Of course, the sisters refer to their development into women as 'the curse', a clever quip on the monstrous transformation going on at the same time. Becoming a werewolf and going through puberty as a female are one and the same, each as damning as the other in society's eyes.

As much as Ginger Snaps is a scary movie, it's also a candidly hilarious take on how it feels to be a woman going through changes, and the otherness, abjection, and outright disgust that comes with it. It truly puts the body into body horror.