2011 · thriller · drama · fantasy
Red Riding Hood
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke1h 40m2011
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.
Our read: Red Riding Hood (2011) reads as a heavy, steady, surreal thriller · drama · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
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