This is not as funny as Teen wolf!
It's that man again!!

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I'm actually going to go out on a limb and say that you barely saw this movie. You just read the plot synopsis on imdb or read reviews. This film has a much darker tone than Twilight. Twilight just appeals to teenage girls that want men to do everything for them while they are carried away with this fairytale saying to themselves "no one cares for me." I get the feeling that Ginger Snaps fans would actually have legitimate reasons for saying that other than "Ginger said it!" which is what I get from Twilight audiences.
As for the one line explanation. I'm all for these interpretations but you at least have to back them up. If I said that Amadeus ripped off Fitzcarraldo, would you expect me to back that up? The only thing I'd be able to say is "they're both arthouse and both have uses of opera score". If you read that while trying to take me seriously, would you take me seriously?
I also struggle to recall a scene where Ginger used the power of the Werewolf to win a hockey game. Or a scene where Pamela turned into a werewolf and told Ginger that werewolves are everywhere, or that she scared the school principal into loosing bladder control. If this movie had those elements, THEN I'd see it more.
"If you don't like your ideas, stop having them!"

A ripoff would indicate that they take the same characters, ideas, themes and tone from one film to the next while doing very little changes to them to make money.
Teen Wolf and Ginger Snaps do have similar concepts - but at the same time so do movies like The Company Of Wolves. They take the concept of using Werewolfism as a metaphor for growing up and take it in completely different directions. Teen Wolf was a goofy movie then and it's a goofy movie now. About how Scott's genetics transform him into a werewolf and he becomes the most popular kid in school because of it. Werewolfism isn't treated as a problem except in the last eighth of the movie.
Ginger Snaps on the other hand The "High School kid going through puberty and changing into a werewolf at the same time" isn't even the main focus of the film. It's her sister trying to find a way to cure it. Werewolfism is treated as a problem since the first minute of the movie when we see a dog get brutally slaughtered (Is this really what chick flicks are like??).
this appeals to the same demographic as Twilight and Miley Cyrus.
Yeah! Because Twilight and Miley Cyrus fans are associated very closely with this:
If you want to say something about/against this movie - fine, that's your right but most of what you're saying can be (and probably has been - I haven't read the responses) debunked. I am respectful of other opinions - just when the're thoguht out properly.
You have your opinions I have mine.

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Yes, and
Teenwolf
"ripped off"
I was a Teenage Werewolf
. Which by the way, was a "rip off" of the whole werewolf trope. Werewolf stories, of course, rip off werewolf legends.
Why is what you say in any way wrong? The detective stories of Raymond Chandler have been ripped off in one way or another for eighty years, in fact, they've created a whole sub-genre of the hard-boiled, film noir detective. Vampire stories were a total ripoff of Bram Stoker until the 1980s, and now they're all ripoffs of Anne Rice.
You're naive about the creative process. It's all full covering story concepts that are already out there and steering them in new directions. The US courts have long said that's not plagiarism, which is where you copy passages with only cosmetic changes. The courts couldn't have ruled otherwise because then ninety percent of fiction would become illegal.
This is not only how the creative process works; it's how sub-genres and eventually genres are made. By the time it's a sub-genre, people call the ripped off parts "conventions." It's also how cultural tropes come about. People expect stories to follow certain patterns.
Nor is it only pop culture that does this. Shakespeare ripped off Christopher Marlow, Ben Jonson, Holinshed, Seneca and Erasmus for
MacBeth
. He ripped off a popular poem by Arthur Brooke called
The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Iuliet,
written in 1562. That poem wasn't even out of print, and he didn't even have to pay royalties. Name any play by Shakespeare other than the historical ones about British Royalty, and you'll find they were ripped off from someone else.
Even if it follows some basic horror tropes,
Ginger Snaps
does something different. I tell you that, because I hated
Teenwolf
and
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
, but I absolutely love
GS
. As far as I'm concerned, so what if
Teenwolf
did it?
Ginger Snaps
is the first one that did it right. Not only does it hit the emotional and thematic notes the other two missed (IMHO), but it revises and makes corrections to the whole werewolf horror sub-genre. It brings original ideas into old tropes and gives them new life.
Yes, it appeals to the same demographic as
Twilight
. So what? The difference is
GS
isn't toilet putty. That demographic should have something of quality to love. This movie is it.
BTW,
GS
has a wider audience. I'm middle aged male and I loved it. Can't say the same for
Twilight
. In fact, I despise that story.
You seldom have a story that's perfectly original. I think Stephen King's
Carrie
might be the most original horror story of the last fifty years, but it's still in the horror genre, so it can't be considered totally original. For anything else, you'd have to go back to H. P. Lovecraft forty to eighty years earlier. Libraries would be smaller or full of empty shelves if only perfect originality were acceptable.

The tones are very different. Teen Wolf is a comedy, Ginger Snaps is horror. They deal with things in very different ways.
Unless you mean the TV show, in which case Ginger Snaps predates it by a lot.

I respectfully disagree with you. Now, although 'Teen Wolf' technically started the 'hormone' werewolf concept.it doesn't even come close to the level of this film due to the much deeper aspects of the lycanthropy condition involving the main female character IMO. As for your second opinion, I would have to 100% disagree with that as well, especially considering the fact that 'Ginger Snaps' is 50 times better than the 'Twilight' films ever will beMiley Cyrus included or not, LOL.