Ginger Snaps is a 2000 Canadian horror film directed by John Fawcett. The film focuses on two teenage sisters who have a fascination with death. The title is a pun on the cookie ginger snap. "Snap" (snapping) also relates to losing one's self-control, or a quick, aggressive bite. During the film's production, the Columbine High School massacre and the W. R. Myers High School shooting took place, causing public controversy over the film's horror themes and the funding it received from Telefilm.
It is the first entry in the Ginger Snaps series, followed by Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed and Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning.
The film is set in Bailey Downs, a suburb where a rash of dog killings has been occurring. Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald are teenage sisters who harbor a fascination with death and, as children, formed a pact to die together. One night, while on the way to kidnap a dog owned by school bully Trina Sinclair, Ginger begins her first period, which results in the girls being attacked by the creature responsible for the maulings. The creature wounds and bites Ginger, but Brigitte rescues her. As the girls flee, the creature is run over by a van belonging to Sam MacDonald, a local drug dealer. Ginger decides not to go the hospital as her wounds heal quickly.
Ginger Snaps
When the cowboy sings
When the Saturn rings
When the ginger snaps
When the thunder claps
You can cut my hair
You can fill my cup
You can tell me lies
You can make it up
We're gonna make it after all
CHORUS:
I don't need to know who's right or wrong
Its not a crime to change your mind
When the kitchen sinks
When the sugar winks
When the doctor calls
When Niagara falls
I'm a wayward Tom
I'm a silver streak
And the walls have ears, but the walls don't speak
We're gonna make it after all
CHORUS
Don't need to know