Chance Solem-Pfeifer Willamette Week Oct 28, 2026

Trigger warning for rampant dog murder, shockingly good tail-growing effects, and the wild highs and lows of sibling connection.

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Kyle Logan Cultured Vultures Feb 18, 2026

Notable for...its practical effects, the obvious parallels between puberty and becoming a werewolf, the peak 2000s...soundtrack, but what’s most memorable is that the fundamental relationship in the film is between [sisters] Brigitte and Ginger.

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Preston Barta Denton Record-Chronicle Oct 25, 2024

'Ginger Snaps' offers a more grounded and relatable take on the teen wolf archetype.

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Brian Bisesi Horror Movie Club Podcast Oct 23, 2024 4/5

The film’s legacy is rightly tied to its themes about womanhood and puberty, but what makes it a gripping watch is its raw and authentic story about two strongly written and aptly performed characters.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Sep 28, 2024 3/4

It deftly combines a werewolf flick with a coming-of-age tale.

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Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Oct 28, 2023

There's a nice undercurrent of black humor that mines absurdities from an adolescent perspective, but this is no 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

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Samantha Allen them. Oct 27, 2022

A werewolf coming-of-age tale about two sisters on the brink of womanhood, Ginger Snaps has a complex subtextual queerness...

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Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Dec 29, 2020 3.5/5

A coming-of-age-via-werewolf-transformation tale with a lot more on its mind than just blood and gore.

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Leah Pickett Chicago Reader Sep 25, 2018

The sharp feminist narrative makes up for the admirable but underwhelming werewolf makeup and other practical effects.

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Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat Aug 5, 2014 3/4

An uncommonly intelligent fright film, one that unnerves you at a very deep, primal level.

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Eleanor McKeown Electric Sheep Oct 7, 2013

A witty and intelligent exploration of what it means to become and live as a woman in middle-class suburbia.

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Scott Tobias AV Club Oct 7, 2013

A smart, resourceful, and wickedly funny teen-horror film that reinvents the werewolf myth as a potent metaphor for pubescent angst and humiliation.

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Alan Jones Radio Times Oct 7, 2013 4/5

In this highly sophisticated and disturbing Canadian horror movie, director John Fawcett transcends the banality of the werewolf formula with verve, well-paced action and genuine terror.

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David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor Oct 7, 2013

John Fawcett has directed "Ginger Snaps" with terrific flair, punctuating ominous moods with bursts of pitch-dark humor.

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Sarah Wenk Common Sense Media Jan 2, 2011 2/5

Very, very violent horror flick.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Apr 29, 2009

A remarkable and excellent werewolf thriller that's equal parts creepy, funny, and tragic.

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Lucius Gore ESplatter Jun 18, 2008 4/4

A stunning teen angst/werewolf film from 2001, this was the best lycanthrope movie since An American Werewolf in London.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Feb 14, 2008 A+

Successfully operates on dual levels -- as a horror movie and as a study of two sisters.

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Philip French Observer (UK) Sep 24, 2007

The movie is much at its best when dealing merely with suspicions, rather than when later laying out the lycanthropy and laying on the gore.

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Derek Elley Variety Sep 24, 2007

A quietly subversive my-sister-is-turning-into-a-werewolf movie that doesn't wimp out at the end.

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