‘Ginger Snaps’, Together Forever [Digital Feature]

Closing in on three decades since its release and Ginger Snaps remains one of the greatest and most beloved werewolf films ever made. Director John Fawcett and writer Karen Walton‘s Canadian horror classic expertly uses lycanthropy to explore menstruation, sexual awakening, girlhood, and the true monstrousness of high school. And there’s still nothing else quite like it.

Now, Ginger Snaps has finally arrived on 4K via Lionsgate’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series as of May 19, giving the beloved genre staple a new spotlight. To mark the release, I sat down with Fawcett and its stars Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins for an in-depth conversation about the making of the film, its enduring legacy, and where it could be headed next.

For the cast, the realization that Ginger Snaps had become a cultural phenomenon didn’t happen overnight. “I wasn’t really until I started going to fan conventions and connecting with fans and hearing their stories of just feeling super connected to the characters,” Perkins shares. “That was when I realized that there was some kind of cultural impact that had happened.”

Isabelle has her own metric for measuring the film’s impact. “A lot of people have Ginger Snaps tattoos. There’s a lot of Ginger mid-transformation tattoos on people. It’s been very cool and lots of really cool fan art too. But yeah, it’s the tattoos that definitely stand out to me.”