Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon, to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them.
Just when you think you've finished with one of these annoying franchises, another one pops up to plague you.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
15 Mar 2011
rotten:
Catherine Hardwicke is Anne Rice with a camera.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
16 Mar 2011
rotten:
Hardwicke directed Twilight, you'll recall, and would apparently like to continue directing it, over and over again.
– Eric D. Snider,
Film.com,
21 Mar 2011
rotten:
More "Twilight" than Grimm, and a terrible mess.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
28 Mar 2011
rotten:
Yes, there's enough connection with the source's underlying issues of repression and desire to give this reason to exist, but, boy, does Hardwicke labour in getting from fairy tale to would-be psycho-thriller.