GreenCine Staff Pick: The Canadian-made Ginger Snaps wasn't John Fawcett's debut (the lesser, but still interesting, The Boys Club was), but it surely marked his as a name to watch. Credit, too, should go to Karen Walton for her sharp script (in which one character rightly observes "Let's forget the Hollywood rules"). One watch of Ginger Snaps and you'll understand why teenagers have made this a serious cult favorite (right up there with Freeway). The film is full of the kind of black humor teens love and an appreciation for adolescent ennui, stars the realistic kind of goth teens you rarely see in commercial films and television, and is pleasingly anti-authority. It's fairly scary, too, but mostly it's wicked good fun. And the film's central metaphor is perfect - appropriately, uh, bloody and sickly funny. Ginger Snaps is Heathers with a lot more bite. Followed by the surprisingly decent sequel Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed and the prequel Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning.