Movies like Ginger Snaps
If Ginger Snaps's mix of high school, sibling relationship and transformation stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Ginger Snaps's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
2004 · Directed by Brett Sullivan · 94 min6.5
Why you'll like itWith Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle · Shares: transformation, halloween, werewolf · Also horror and fantasy · From the same decade (2000s)
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her.
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The Company of Wolves
1984 · Directed by Neil Jordan · 95 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, werewolf · Also horror and fantasy
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside.
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Night of the Living Dead
1968 · Directed by George A. Romero · 96 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, halloween
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
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Halloween
1978 · Directed by John Carpenter · 91 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, marijuana
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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Scream
1996 · Directed by Wes Craven · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: high school, halloween
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
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Bring Her Back
2025 · Directed by Danny Philippou · 104 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, body horror
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 · Directed by Chuck Russell · 96 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: halloween · Also horror and fantasy
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
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Big Hero 6
2014 · Directed by Chris Williams · 102 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: sibling relationship, coming of age
A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
2017 · Directed by Jon Watts · 133 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: high school, coming of age
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as…
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It
2017 · Directed by Andy Muschietti · 135 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, coming of age
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Directed by Wes Craven · 91 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: halloween
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive…
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Eraserhead
1977 · Directed by David Lynch · 89 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: body horror
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.