Release Date: 11 March 2011 (USA) Runtime: 100 min
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Taglines: Believe the legend. Beware the wolf.
Directed byCatherine Hardwicke
Writing credit(WGA) David Johnson
Original Music by Alex Heffes & Brian Reitzell
Cinematography by Mandy Walker
Filming Locations:
Canadian Motion Picture Park Studios, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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. 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..
MAIN CASTS
Amanda Seyfried , Gary Oldman , Billy Burke , Shiloh Fernandez , Max Irons , Virginia Madsen , Lukas Haas
Julie Christie , Shauna Kain , Michael Hogan , Adrian Holmes , Cole Heppell , Christine Willes , Michael Shanks , Kacey Rohl
Box Office
Budget: $42,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $14,005,335 (USA) (13 March 2011) (3030 Screens)
Gross: $37,652,565 (USA) (22 May 2011)
Production Co: Warner Bros. Pictures, Appian Way, Random Films
REVIEW
Red Riding Hood is...Good enough!
I've read quite a few reviews here and was truly surprised about the supremely negative feedback. "The Grimm brothers would roll in their graves," someone wrote. My response to that is: "Really, would they now?" I believe a bit of research on the subject would do some quite a bit of good. The brothers Grimm -which weren't the original story tellers of 'Rotkaeppchen' as they called it- told folktales, not fairy tales…they were the very first tabloid writers and although their stories all had a grain of truth at the very core, the brothers wrote them to feed into peoples believes, superstitions and prejudice in central Europe in the 1800…their tales were often capricious and usually cruel, showing very little moral. It took generations of translations and retelling to soften the originals enough to be considered bedtime stories because the originals would have provoked nightmares in grown man at their time. Does anyone know what the significance is of the name Peter and why he wears black throughout the entire film?? I'd love to read your ideas about that. The film is a nice translation…yet another one. And by far closer based on the Grimm brothers vision than the stories we all were told as kids. I did see a bit of parallel to Twilight but only because both, this film and all the Twilight movies were filmed in Vancouver and surely used the same scenery. The Storyline is based on the folktale and (in my opinion) it has been done rather well.
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