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.
Red Riding Hood
Who's afraid?
2011 · 1h 40m · PG-13
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Catherine Hardwicke
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Red Riding Hood
Overview
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.
Director and cast
- Catherine Hardwicke Director
- Amanda Seyfried as Valerie
- Gary Oldman as Father Soloman
- Billy Burke as Cesaire
- Shiloh Fernandez as Peter
- Max Irons as Henry Lazar
- Julie Christie as Valerie's Grandmother
- Lukas Haas as Father August
- Virginia Madsen as Suzette
- Shauna Kain as Roxanne
- Michael Hogan as The Reeve
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
More "Twilight" than Grimm, and a terrible mess.
Hardwicke directed Twilight, you'll recall, and would apparently like to continue directing it, over and over again.
Catherine Hardwicke is Anne Rice with a camera.
Just when you think you've finished with one of these annoying franchises, another one pops up to plague you.
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