Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood
Summary Review:
Red Riding Hood is a surprising new take on an old folktale, creatively and terrifyingly reworked.

Summary:
I was not planning on reviewing Red Riding Hood, butwent to the cinema with a friend I hadn’t seen in ages, who insisted on watching it, so here we are:
Red Riding Hood is set in a medieval village that has been plagued by a wolf for many years.
Atravelling priest comes to the village and explains to the people that it is not a mere wolf, but in actual fact a werewolf that is attacking their village. The villagers turn on each other as theyrealise that the werewolf could be any one of them undercover.
Meanwhile, Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) has been given to Henry Lazar to marry, but she is really in love with Peter, a lowly woodcutter. Whileembroiled in this love triangle, the three youngsters are pivotal in ridding their village of the werewolf.
Red Riding Hood is directed by Catherine Hardwicke, director of Twilight, and the visualaspects of this film are very similar to those of that vampire movie, making use of sharp colour contrasts. The illicit romance between Valerie and Peter is indulged with several dream-like forestscenes of the couple.
The dialogue of Red Riding Hood is very cursory, not aiding any character development, but rather progressing the plot from one scene to the next.
Despite the melodramatic romanceand the scant dialogue, Red Riding Hood has many gory moments as a horror film. It is scary and has a few unexpected twists, which make the conclusion surprising and rewarding

Genre: Horror
Plot:Valerie is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry .Unwilling to lose eachother, 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,...