Set in a medieval village that is
haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to
her family's displeasure.
Director: Catherine
Hardwicke.
Writer: David Johnson (as David Leslie Johnson).
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Lukas Haas, Gary Oldman.
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Storyline
Valerie (Seyfried) is a beautiful
young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider,
Peter (Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy
Henry (Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to
run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed
by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For
years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the
creature a monthly animal sacrifice.
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But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Oldman), 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. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves.
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But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Oldman), 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. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves.
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User Reviews
Many people know that the most
common children's' tales, especially those from the likes of the brothers
Grimm, started out as scary, violent, and unpleasant, but have evolved over
time, being toned down with each generation, until they are just a shadow of
what they used to be, no teeth, no claws, just innocent & sugary sweet
stories with little heart and too much nostalgia.
Considering this, you'd have
thought writing a good script for any movie based on a fairytale would be a
piece of cake. Just do a bit of historical research, find an old version of the
tale, flesh it out, and hey presto! Great storyline!
Red Riding Hood shows us how not
to do it! For a start, they stripped the story down to the raw ingredients:
(Pretty girl with a red cloak, a wolf, a grandmother, a forest), stuck in a
whole load of other characters that serve little purpose to the storyline,
added a love triangle and a baddie, then suddenly remembered that this was
supposed to be a horror film, so they made the wolf into a WEREwolf.
OK, so it's difficult to spin the
tale out to a 100 minute long storyline, but it would have been more
entertaining to have just seen Valerie walk in the woods for 80 minutes, and
the remaining 20 minutes to be filled with the encounter etc. - All things
considered, because the cinematography was absolutely beautiful, this would
have been a vast improvement on this film!
Trying to follow the story, the
love triangles, the family trysts and deceptions, the "Who desired who,
and who has an unrequieted love for..." was more akin to a really bad soap
opera than a Gothic horror. This comparison is all the easier considering some
of the trite lines and deadpan expressions from some of the actors.
A few moments made this film more
bearable for me. It was very stylishly shot, and Gary Oldman's presence made
the movie slightly more entertaining, but not enough to rescue this movie.
Unfortunately, it is one for the
Twilight generation - a bunch of very pretty boy & girl actors who affect
unfocused glassy-eyed expressions to try to convey 'Wisdom beyond their years',
and a storyline that was borrowed from a Mills & Boon novella & forced
into a mould that didn't quite fit.
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