Ginger Snaps (2000)
A teenage girl experiences changes when a hairy monster transfers its curse.
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Characters/Groups
Toddler - Graeme Robertson and Maxwell Robertson
Creature and Ginerwolf - Nick Nolan
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Detailed Synopsis
A Mother (Ginger Snaps)|Mother is raking the leaves while her Toddler (Ginger Snaps)|Toddler is playing in his sandbox. The Toddler finds some blood in the sandbox and The Mother walks over and sees a dog paw in the sand. She goes to her dog Baxter's dog house and sees Baxter's remains. Brigitte hears the Mother screaming and the Mother runs to the street and yells that the Creature (Ginger Snaps)|Creature got Baxter. The next door neighbor dog Norman starts to bark and Brigitte tells him to shut up. She walks into the basement and tells Ginger that Baxter is dead. Ginger tells her that she wants to commit suicide by slitting her throat. Brigitte worries that if they commit suicide, the neighbors will just laugh, but Ginger thinks they will be in awe of them. Ginger brings up that they swore they would die together and Brigitte pledges again to die with Ginger. They takes various photos of each other dead by accidents or suicide which is then presented to their high school class. The class cheers, but Mr. Wayne tells them he was sickened and tells them to go to his guidance counselor office later. Jason (Ginger Snaps)|Jason asks if they could see the photos with Ginger in them again. During girl's lacrosse, Jason, Ben (Ginger Snaps)|Ben and Tim (Ginger Snaps)|Tim watch in the bleachers. Jason tells Ben and Tim that he wants to have sex with Ginger. Ginger sees him staring at her and Brigitte seems uncomfortable. They look at the other students and Brigitte imagines that Trina will die in the hair dye aisle from taking too many diet pills and laxatives. One of Trina's friends tells her what Brigitte said and during the game, Trina pushes Brigitte into the corpse of a dead dog. Ginger walks into the locker room and sees the Janitor (Ginger Snaps)|Janitor helping Brigitte out and accuses him of being a pervert. After school, Brigitte comes up with the idea of kidnapping Trina's dog and making it look like the Creature (Ginger Snaps)|Creature ate it. Sam (Ginger Snaps)|Sam drives his work van to the school and sells Jason some drugs. Trina tries to flirt with Sam, but he drives off. Jason walks up to Ginger and asks her out, but she rejects him. Hockey Kid is playing with Norman when Brigitte makes Ginger promise she won't become like the normal girls. Pamela shows Ginger and Brigitte the flowers she got, but they walk away. At dinner, Pamela thinks Ginger might be about to get her first period. Henry (Ginger Snaps)|Henry doesn't think it is the right topic for dinner, and Pamela blames him for Ginger and Brigitte not taking it seriously. During the evening, Brigitte starts having second thoughts about kidnapping Trina's dog. While walking through the playground, they come across the corpse of a dog. Brigitte notices the corpse is still warm and Ginger starts having her period. The Creature suddenly grabs Ginger and drags her through the woods. Brigitte runs into the woods after them and helps Ginger escape. They run across the road and as the Creature is following the, it is hit by Sam driving his work van and killed. Brigitte and Ginger run away while Sam gets out of the van and looks at the Creature. Ginger and Brigitte go to their house and Brigitte notices Ginger's wounds are already starting to heal. Brigitte looks at the Polaroid she took and sees the head of the Creature. During class, they watch a video on intruder cells taking over a body. They go to the store and buy tampons. Jason sees Ginger buying them and invites her to smoke a joint with him. Ginger, Jason, Ben and Tim go into Sam's van to smoke a joint. As Brigitte is looking at the damage on Sam's work van, he walks over and she asks him what he hit. Sam catches Ginger and the others smoking in his van and kicks them out. Trina walks up and insults Ginger and Trina's dog starts barking at Ginger. Brigitte drops her things, including the Polaroid of the Creature and Ginger kicks Trina's dog. Ginger shows Brigitte the hair that is growing out of the claw wounds on her shoulder and Brigitte brings up that Ginger was bitten on a full moon. Ginger starts bleeding again and her and Brigitte go to the nurse's office. Nurse Ferry assures them that it is just normal with a period. She then explains the different stages of a period. During dinner, Pamela brings Ginger a cake and Ginger thinks Brigitte told Pamela about her period.