Catherine Hardwicke, that name alone gave me the creeps years ago. She offended the horror genre with the so much acclaimed but also hated Twilight saga. I hated it too and was afraid to watch Red Riding Hood. But I gave it a change due Amanda Seyfried which I've seen in the also hated Jennifer's Body but for me she did well, and I must say, I have seen her in Mamma Mia and she acted extremely good in that too. Further on mister Dracula (for the new generation) Gary Oldman was in it too and I like him too as an actor. But I can understand that people will hate Red Riding Hood. It's in the kind of Van Helsing and Wolf Man (the new one with Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro). in which I mean the use of CGI of the main creatures. Here we have the story of a normal girl falling in love with, well, you will see. Of course I couldn't watch it without comparing it with Twilight. Much better this is, there is some kind of atmosphere all over it done with color grading. There is a lot of CGI used for making the woods creepy but it worked out fine. It really looked like a fairy tale. And the most famous words of the fairy tale are in it, you know, grandma what big....It can be watched by teens because no gore or almost no blood is seen in this flick. Killings are off screen and you don't see knifes or swords going in the flesh. I liked it, even as a horror aficionado.
Review of Red Riding Hood
