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Red Riding Hood

  • 2011
  • PG-13
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
118K
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Amanda Seyfried, Max Irons, and Shiloh Fernandez in Red Riding Hood (2011)
In a twist on the fairy tale, Valerie, a young woman torn between two men. plans on escaping her village with her true love. But when her sister is killed by a werewolf in the dark forest near her home, Valerie soon realizes that she has a special connection to the beast.
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A teenage girl finds herself in deathly straits when her village sets out to hunt the werewolf that terrorizes it every full moon.A teenage girl finds herself in deathly straits when her village sets out to hunt the werewolf that terrorizes it every full moon.A teenage girl finds herself in deathly straits when her village sets out to hunt the werewolf that terrorizes it every full moon.

  • Director
    • Catherine Hardwicke
  • Writer
    • David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
  • Stars
    • Amanda Seyfried
    • Lukas Haas
    • Gary Oldman
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.4/10
    118K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,825
    1,786
    • Director
      • Catherine Hardwicke
    • Writer
      • David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
    • Stars
      • Amanda Seyfried
      • Lukas Haas
      • Gary Oldman
    • 358User reviews
    • 299Critic reviews
    • 29Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 5 nominations total

    Videos11

    Red Riding Hood: Trailer #2
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    Red Riding Hood: Trailer #2
    Red Riding Hood: Teaser Trailer
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    Red Riding Hood: Teaser Trailer
    Red Riding Hood: Teaser Trailer
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    Red Riding Hood: Teaser Trailer
    Red Riding Hood: The Wolf Talked To Me
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    Red Riding Hood: The Wolf Talked To Me
    Red Riding Hood: It's You
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    Red Riding Hood: It's You
    Red Riding Hood: The Wolf Lives Here
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    Red Riding Hood: The Wolf Lives Here
    Red Riding Hood: I Lost My Sister, I Can't Lose You Too
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    Red Riding Hood: I Lost My Sister, I Can't Lose You Too

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    Amanda Seyfried
    Amanda Seyfried
    • Valerie
    Lukas Haas
    Lukas Haas
    • Father Auguste
    Gary Oldman
    Gary Oldman
    • Solomon
    Billy Burke
    Billy Burke
    • Cesaire
    Shiloh Fernandez
    Shiloh Fernandez
    • Peter
    Max Irons
    Max Irons
    • Henry
    Virginia Madsen
    Virginia Madsen
    • Suzette
    Julie Christie
    Julie Christie
    • Grandmother
    Shauna Kain
    Shauna Kain
    • Roxanne
    Michael Hogan
    Michael Hogan
    • The Reeve
    Adrian Holmes
    Adrian Holmes
    • Captain
    Cole Heppell
    Cole Heppell
    • Claude
    Christine Willes
    Christine Willes
    • Madame Lazar
    Michael Shanks
    Michael Shanks
    • Adrien Lazar
    Kacey Rohl
    Kacey Rohl
    • Prudence
    Carmen Lavigne
    Carmen Lavigne
    • Rose
    Don Thompson
    Don Thompson
    • Tavern Owner
    Matt Ward
    Matt Ward
    • Captain's Brother
    • Director
      • Catherine Hardwicke
    • Writer
      • David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
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    User reviews358

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    7rachelmcdermod

    I shamelessly love this movie

    Is this movie corny? Yes. Are there cliches? Of course. Is it also entertaining, sexy, and fun? 100%. I watched this movie in late high school and now in my mid-20s I still love it. It's a dark take on a classic fairy tale and is entertaining all the way through. The twist in the end took me by surprise, but I am someone who hardly ever sees twists coming, so take that with a grain of salt. This movie is worth a watch. It's not a masterpiece but it is enjoyable if you don't expect anything earth shattering from it.
    4TheLittleSongbird

    Tries to be too many things all at once

    I wasn't sure whether I wanted to see this movie. I am not a fan of the Twilight movies(the first of which Catherine Hardwicke also directed) and it didn't look like my kind of film. But I saw it for the wonderful Gary Oldman.

    I wasn't expecting much, and I didn't get much. Red Riding Hood(not the fairytale by the way) does try hard to be a lot of things, including introducing a number of horror, fantasy and mystery elements. But due to the sluggish pace and disjointed story structure(that is full of overlong filler, particularly the celebration scene, and the dream sequence was very awkwardly placed) the film fails at pretty much all these elements.

    The script is very clunky, underdeveloped and banal as well. A lot of it did not keep my attention and I found myself chuckling into my coke at any unintentionally funny bits. The CGI is quite poor here, with the wolf looking as though it was done in a hurry. Hardwicke's direction never rises above mediocre, the editing is unfocused and frenzied and the three titular characters are incredibly dull and uninteresting with the romantic elements between them poorly written and directed.

    The acting doesn't fare much better. Amanda Seyfried is pretty but bland in the title role and shows little or no chemistry with her co-stars, while Max Irons(son of Jeremy), Lukas Haas and Shiloh Fernandez show good looks but awkward line delivery. Virginia Madsen and Billy Burke are both wasted, both over-doing it in a valiant attempt to elevate their weak material(these two actors probably had the worst of the dialogue next to the leads actually). And the climax is little more than a mangled mess and devoid of depth.

    Despite these many cons, there are some decent assets. The score is atmospheric enough and the costume and set design are spot on. Plus there are two good performances, Gary Oldman and Julie Christie. Oldman does chew the scenery, but he looks as though he's having a ball, while Christie is very enchanting.

    Overall, not terrible, but deeply flawed and over-ambitious. 4/10 Bethany Cox
    6mcs-995-841390

    Red Riding Hood is...Good enough!

    Just returned from a nearly sold out theater and I must say the film was somewhere between decent and good!

    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.
    fuzzywuzzywasabear

    Reviewing the Reviewers

    I have never written a review before, nor have cared enough to look and read through reviews in the first place. However, I do have something to say about this movie, and the reviewers who think their opinions are worth listening to.

    In my case, I go in to watch movies on non-biased terms. Meaning, I do not go in with any pretenses or theories jaded by others speculation. I go in to watch what the movie is offering, and interpret it in to my own fashion, seeing as every one will have their own opinions. So, I did the exact same prep with this film. I bought my ticket, sat in my seat, didn't think twice about what I was about to see, and just watched.

    I loved Red Riding Hood. I thought it was beautiful, it was subtle and sexy- especially with the knock out soundtrack- and, most importantly, I went on a journey with the film. It kept me hooked, and although there were a few silly moments or corny lines, I still found myself lost in the mystery and the unknowing of the film. All movies will have their faults, or what I like to call, inflections. One, for me, was wanting to see a more developed character of Valerie and her family. I would have enjoyed seeing a relationship between her and her sister before Lucie was killed and where to story we saw began, as I would have understood her pain on the same level. As well, I would have liked to have seem more about her Grandmother and the way she lived at the same age as Valerie growing up with the Wolf and its legend. To me, that would have made the film a whole and the storyline would have become more dynamic. But, seeing as they wanted to have this film out in theatres and not as a mini series, I think what they put in the film fit wonderfully with the time gap of the audience's attention.

    Now, it is one thing to review a movie on it's pros and cons and to point out where the plot failed or the story line succeeded. However, it is another thing to write a review comparing it to a movie with the same director and showing the apparent similarities. Yes, I am talking about all you reviewers who only had one thing to say: Twilight. I have seen Twilight, I have painfully endured Twilight, and I dismissed Twilight. Twilight has a flawed script and storyline, and I personally believe the only good Twilight was the first Twilight, as Catherine was able to draw the attention away from the story line with the visuals, the camera angles, etc. To try and accuse Red Riding Hood of being a "Twilight clone" is absurd. If you were to compare anything to Twilight, I'm sure you would find some similarities. It's what makes movies Movies. All movies follow the same structure. There will always be conflict, there will always be a climax, and there will always be a resolution. If you know Red Riding Hood, the actual story, not the censored picture book you were read as a child, then you would know that the censored version is a simple, straight forward idea. The Brothers Grimm tale is however, what you SHOULD be comparing this film to. And, I believe the director, the camera crew, the actors, etc all played in to this old, twisted fairy tale we all think we know and did a very good job of it.

    All in all, Red Riding Hood did what it was supposed to. Entertain, and keep you on the edge of your seat. It's beautiful, it is gracious and it is well adapted.

    Now, go and read the Brothers Grimm tale!
    4juk275

    It was okay...

    I went to the cinema today with two good friends to see this film. I had seen the trailer and got worked up that this would be a good film. However, it is not as good as it could have been. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy some of the film. Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons and the excellent Gary Oldman acted brilliantly in the film, and the effects for the Werewolf were pretty fantastic as well. However, the rest of the cast let this film down and although it is classed as a "horror" movie, there is only really one jump-worthy moment. I don't want to give away the secret of the wolf, but if you listen closely, you can easily tell who it is...

    There is a bit of gore, but if you are into some of the supernatural stuff (especially Twilight, even though I'm not a fan), you should give it a shot and might like this... but horror-lovers, keep well away, you might end up feeling a bit ripped-off...

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Amanda Seyfried had a bad experience with Shiloh Fernandez at a dinner party, so Catherine Hardwicke had to persuade the actress to give him a chance.
    • Goofs
      As this village is small and poor, there is no way all of the villagers would be able to afford to put glass in every window. In the middle ages glass windows were expensive and usually only the rich could afford them. Poor villagers would have normally used dried animal skins scraped very thin to block a window and allow some light into a house.
    • Quotes

      Valerie: I'll do anything to be with you.

      Peter: I thought you'd say that.

    • Crazy credits
      After the credits a werewolf suddenly appears and lunges at the camera
    • Alternate versions
      There is an alternate cut of the film that is twenty six seconds longer.
    • Connections
      Featured in Conan: Seven Salads for Seven Brothers Who Are Sexually Attracted to Salads (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Towers Of The Void
      Written and Produced by Anthony Gonzalez and Brian Reitzell

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 11, 2011 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Canada
    • Official sites
      • Warner Bros. (Spain)
      • Warner Bros. (Japan)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La chica de la capa roja
    • Filming locations
      • Canadian Motion Picture Park Studios - 8085 Glenwood Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • Appian Way
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $42,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $37,662,162
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $14,005,335
      • Mar 13, 2011
    • Gross worldwide
      • $90,260,376
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

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    • Runtime
      • 1h 40m(100 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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