Red Riding Hood

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Red Riding Hood

PG-13

2011

1h 39m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

Fantasy

Romance

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Young Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) feels torn between two men. She loves Peter, but her parents intend that she marry wealthy Henry. Valerie and Peter are going to run away together, but her sister is killed by a werewolf before they can put their plan into action. The villagers call on the help of Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), a famous monster hunter who warns that the beast takes human form by day. Then Valerie suspects that the werewolf is someone she loves.

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Critics Consensus

Amanda Seyfried is magnetic in Red Riding Hood's starring role, but she's let down by her uninspired leading men and a painfully cliched script.

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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

08/09/2023

2/5

Catherine Hardwicke moves from a modern romance (Twilight) to a Grimm classic with this daft retelling of the girl-in-the-crimson-cloak legend.

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Deborah Ross

The Spectator

08/30/2018

We like a turkey, don't we, children? We like a big fat turkey we can dance around, crowingly, don't we? Haven't we had a lot of fun doing that over the years? But this is such a dismal runt of a turkey.

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Scott Foundas

Film Comment Magazine

06/28/2013

'Beware the wolf,' warn Red Riding Hood's posters and television ads. Be even warier of this movie.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

07/31/2023

1/4

The production looks and plays like an expensive made-for-TV movie. Unless you’re a proud “Twihard” eager to find material that suits such popularized tastes, chances are you’ll find the experience a crushing bore.

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Martín Rodríguez

En Filme

02/01/2023

2/5

... It is the most toned-down adaptation, so much so that it is even, at times, boring. [Full review in Spanish]

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

09/07/2022

3.5/5

Red Riding Hood is an entertaining take on Little Red Riding Hood that takes the fairytale, ... , and puts it all in beautiful settings, shoots it all with great cinematography, and has a few really good performances at the center of it all.

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Michael S.

@mstrocko Nov 10

Woefully misguided attempt to turn this tale into a Twilight knockoff. Gary Oldman hams it up nicely; the rest is almost unwatchable.

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Michael T

Nov 5

I saw this film when it first came out enjoyed it so much I have to rewatch again every 3-4years, always around Halloween. The movie title are just words. Dont expect the childhood story here. Instead you'll be treated to a good werewolf movie.

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Lilli K

Oct 17

I liked the ending but it's lowkey cliche

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Sharmaine B

Jun 14

After reading the book first, I felt like there were so many details that could’ve made the movie so much better. It had great potential, but it didn’t go as in-depth as I was hoping. I understand there’s only so much you can fit into a two-hour film, but it ended up feeling really rushed. I’d definitely recommend reading the book—you’ll see that the movie is more of a summary than a full experience. It wasn’t a bad movie at all, and the characters were portrayed just as the book described them. But the book adds a lot more depth and context.

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Rob A

Apr 28

An in-her-prime Amanda Seyfried finds herself at the center of a love triangle in this updated version of Wolfman. Campy throughout (Gary Oldman here is akin to Jon Voight in Anaconda) yet visually dazzling, this is a popcorn movie and I've watched it twice. Have you ever liked a "bad" movie? I have - and this is one of those. I suspect more people enjoyed it than are willing to admit.

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Brad S. R

Apr 4

One of the most preposterous, unbelievably bad films—to say nothing of horror films—ever made. Redeeming quality can usually be found in most bad films, but there is not one thing I can recommend in this ghastly re-imagining of the old fairy tale.

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Synopsis

Young Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) feels torn between two men. She loves Peter, but her parents intend that she marry wealthy Henry. Valerie and Peter are going to run away together, but her sister is killed by a werewolf before they can put their plan into action. The villagers call on the help of Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), a famous monster hunter who warns that the beast takes human form by day. Then Valerie suspects that the werewolf is someone she loves.

Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Producer: Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Leonardo DiCaprio, Julie Yorn
Screenwriter: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Appian Way
Rating: PG-13 (Some Sensuality|Creature Terror|Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 11, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 24, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $37.7M
Runtime: 1h 39m
Sound Mix: Datasat, DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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