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.
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.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
13 Apr 2011
rotten:
More "Twilight" than Grimm, and a terrible mess.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
28 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:
Catherine Hardwicke is Anne Rice with a camera.
– Rex Reed,
New York Observer,
16 Mar 2011
rotten:
Just when you think you've finished with one of these annoying franchises, another one pops up to plague you.