20 Scariest Female Horror Villains

Katharine Isabelle as Ginger Fitzgerald (Image via Motion International)

16. Ginger Fitzgerald (Ginger Snaps)

Ginger Fitzgerald can’t help being a villain. She beginsGinger Snaps as yet another teenager, afraid to grow up and obsessed with the morbid side of life. Life certainly doesn’t get easier when she’s bitten by a werewolf and starts to experience animalistic symptoms of her own. The push and pull between Ginger’s humanity and her emerging beastly nature makes for interesting film viewing, not to mention a spot-on metaphor for puberty.

Over the course of Ginger Snaps, it becomes clear that the lycanthropy curse is beginning to win. To the horror of her sister, Brigitte, Ginger begins to grow teeth, extra hair, and even a tail. It’s not all bad, though. While she becomes more wolflike, Ginger also grows in confidence and aggressiveness. When she’s in her animalistic form, Ginger discovers that she is no longer afraid of growing up. Who would be, if they learned that adulthood also meant being a seemingly indestructible wolf monster?

But, alas, the situation is unsustainable. Ginger’s humanity is slipping away, for one. And, while she may be confident, Ginger is also increasingly bloodthirsty. She eventually tears apart a guidance counselor, a janitor, and the local drug dealer. Brigitte must face her increasingly villainous sister to the final, inevitable conclusion.