Red Riding Hood

The music is haunting, the movie was a great one if you needed to get away from the world for a bit. I liked the cast and I felt like despite the movie taking such a drastic turn from the original idea of Little Red Riding Hood, Red Riding Hood is not at all that horrible as majority of critics make it out to be. Sure Catherine Hardwicke who is renowned for Twilight could not seem to help but instill many aspects of Twilight in this film too but can you blame her? The hype nowadays is over vampires, werewolves and zombies and it is without a doubt that Twilight secretly makes every girl daydream no matter how ridiculous she may find the concept of a stalkerish vampire.

I for one would pick Jacob any day but that is hardly relevant to this post.

Red Riding Hood was lacking in the werewolf department, and I think it has a lot to do with the outcome of who the wolf is. Without spoiling it, watch it for yourself and see if you agree with me on if the wolf was overly played up then it would have been "wrong". Besides, we would prefer feasting upon (er, with our eyes of course) the likes of Shiloh Fernandez (Peter) and Max Irons (Henry) in the human form admittedly...not saying either of them is the wolf, you will have to watch the movie to find out of course.

 (Image from here)

Overall it is barely what the original fairytale was but I appreciate the twist on it and love how sexed up it is in order to appeal to our current society with its frenzied fascination over the supernatural. I love the style of it despite it being very similar to Twilight but in all fairness I hardly think you could film in any other way to truly showcase the feel and appeal of werewolves. The acting was obviously not award worthy but overall the movie makes for a nice one to watch in bed. No harm in one of those.

You can watch the trailer for Red Riding Hood here: