RED RIDING HOOD is a 2011 dark fantasy and thriller film directed by Catherine Hardwicke (director of Twilight), starring Amanda Seyfried as Valerie, Shiloh Fernandez as Peter and Max Irons as Henry, and was produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Movie Sypnosis
Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max 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. 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 (Gary 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. 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.
- Warner Bros. Pictures
Critic Reviews
"We always suspected the kid in the red cloak had a dark side. The new "Red Riding Hood" starring Amanda Seyfried confirms our suspicions." - Glenn Lovell, CinemaDope
"Smartly conceived and beautifully shot horror spin on the fairy tale is undermined by bad execution." - Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic
"Say what you want about Red Riding Hood, but it's the best sexy psychoanalytical soap opera fantasy you'll see all year." - Clem Bastow, The Vine
"Amanda Seyfried is magnetic in Red Riding Hood's starring role, but she's let down by her uninspired leading men and a painfully cliched script." - Rotten Tomatoes
About the Director
Catherine Hardwicke worked in film production design before she became an award-winning director for the films Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown, and The Nativity Story and the international blockbuster Twilight, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer. Hardwicke's films have garnered dozens of accomolades, including Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and six MTV Movie Awards.
David Leslie Johnson graduated from the Ohio State University in Columbus with a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography and cinema. After working as a production assistant on the Academy Award-nominated film The Shawshank Redemption, Johnson spent five years as an assistant to film director and writer, Frank Darabont, learning the trade of screenwirting from one of the industry's most respected talents. He was also the screenplay writer of the famous blockbuster movie Wrath of the Titans.
Novel Writer
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is a recent cum laude graduate of Barnard College. She is a recipient of the 2008-2009 Mary Gordon Fiction Scholarship Award and the 2009-2010 Lenore Marshall Barnard Prize for Prose. She grew up in Los Angeles and Mexico. She now writes in New York City and Los Angeles.
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