The Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Lukas Haas, Gary Oldman, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Virgini Onadsen, Julie Christie.
The Story: Dealing with her frowned-upon love for woodcutter Peter (Fernandez), Valerie (Seyfried) also has to contend with a wolf stalking her medieval village home.
Set in a medieval village, this dark retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fable, where a werewolf has been terrorising the citizens is directed by Catherine Hardwick and bares more than a passing resemblance to her last film Twilight.
For decades they have maintained an uneasy truce with the werewolf, who prowls at every full moon, by offering the beast a monthly animal sacrifice to quench its appetite. But under a blood red moon, the wolf changes the stakes by taking the life of one of their own.
Valerie, who had previously looked as if she were a Renaissance fair fashion victim, accepts the scintillating red cloak from her proto-hippie grandmother (Julie Christie).
She has just found out that her parents (Burke and Madsen) have arranged for her to marry Henry (Irons), the town’s rich boy, a perfect young gent who really does not care for her.
As the death toll rises with each red moon, panic grips the town tearing apart the once close-knit village.
The Verdict: One of the classic fairytales filmed as a sexual fantasy for teenage girls especially those Twi Hards who cant wait for the release of Breaking Dawn. The similarities are plain to see, with duelling hot young males and Twilight’s Billy Burke as Valerie’s father.
The Story: Dealing with her frowned-upon love for woodcutter Peter (Fernandez), Valerie (Seyfried) also has to contend with a wolf stalking her medieval village home.
Set in a medieval village, this dark retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fable, where a werewolf has been terrorising the citizens is directed by Catherine Hardwick and bares more than a passing resemblance to her last film Twilight.
With everyone’s recent obsession with monster movies, especially vampires and werewolves, this take on the children’s classic fairytale follows the frightened people of the village of Daggerhorn.
For decades they have maintained an uneasy truce with the werewolf, who prowls at every full moon, by offering the beast a monthly animal sacrifice to quench its appetite. But under a blood red moon, the wolf changes the stakes by taking the life of one of their own.
The victim Lucy, is the older (half) sister of Valerie, a beautiful, young woman, who is torn between two men.
Valerie, who had previously looked as if she were a Renaissance fair fashion victim, accepts the scintillating red cloak from her proto-hippie grandmother (Julie Christie).
She has just found out that her parents (Burke and Madsen) have arranged for her to marry Henry (Irons), the town’s rich boy, a perfect young gent who really does not care for her.
But Valerie is in love with Peter, an impetuous, danger-loving, bad-boy type. He is the poor woodcutter she has loved all her life and unwilling to be parted, the couple plan to run away together, but, in a horrifying instant, the wolf changes everything.
As the townspeople hunger for revenge, famed werewolf hunter Father Solomon (Oldman) is summoned to Daggerhorn to kill the beast once and for all. His character comes to town to warn the locals that the hound of hell that has been killing their children is actually one of their neighbours. No one is above suspicion.
As the death toll rises with each red moon, panic grips the town tearing apart the once close-knit village.
But it is Valerie who discovers she has a unique connection to the wolf that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect and bait as the villagers attempt to trap the wolf.
The Verdict: One of the classic fairytales filmed as a sexual fantasy for teenage girls especially those Twi Hards who cant wait for the release of Breaking Dawn. The similarities are plain to see, with duelling hot young males and Twilight’s Billy Burke as Valerie’s father.
The gothic re-imaging of the fairy tale is not the horror film you would expect from the trailers but rather a supernatural teen drama right along the lines of this directors previous offerings.
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