“Let’s forget the Hollywood rules,” says a character in the Canadian werewolf movie “Ginger Snaps,” and the picture takes his advice. “Ginger Snaps,” which was directed by John Fawcett from a clever, ...

Adolescence is difficult. While there are exceptions—and in due time, most young people are capable of carving out a niche of their own—those ostensible growing pains can feel incredibly alienating.

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...

IT IS NOT QUITE a third of the way through John Fawcett’s 2001 teen werewolf film Ginger Snaps, after Ginger Fitzgerald, one of the two spooky 15-year-old sisters who serve as our heroines, has been ...

Made in Canada: Homegrown films by homegrown filmmakers. A sharp feminist narrative, smart thematic writing and wicked humour make this cult-classic horror well worth a (re-)watch. Stuck in the ...

“Something’s wrong, like, more than you being female.” —Emily Perkins, Ginger Snaps There are horrors aplenty in Brian De Palma’s Carrie, but none quite as discomforting as the opening sequence, in ...