“It was such an interesting commentary on the teen experience because there's so much rejection from the parents from the adults and there's so much apathy from them.”
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985
“I think about it often as a kind of horror film filled with latent images. The images and the meanings of the film are so deeply baked into the horror iconography that you can watch it as just a horror film.”
Ginger Snaps
2000
“It was so perfectly entwined in terms of its specific point of view on the female experience and the horror elements. It made me feel like teen horror has boundaries that can be expanded so far.”