Red Riding Hood

This is the final film that I can't wait to see at the cinema. Red Riding Hood is an American dark fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke who is known for popular, unconvetional films such as Twilight and Thirteen. It is very loosely based on the folk tale Little Red Riding Hood collected by both Charles Perrault under the name "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" (Little Red Riding Hood) and several decades later by the Brothers Grimm as "Rotkäppchen" (Little Redcap). The film also draws inspiration from Bruno Bettelheim's book The Uses of Enchantment, in which he analyzes fairy tales in terms of Freudian psychology. The film stars Amanda Seyfried who is known for roles in the lovable films Mama Mia! and Mean Girls and Gary Oldman who has starred in The Fifth Element and The Dark Knight.

The plot of the film is: the people of Daggerhorn have long maintained a truce with the werewolf that stalks their woods. Every month they sacrifice an animal in the hope that the wolf will depart with its thirst for blood quenched. One of Daggerhorn's inhabitants is Valerie (Amanda Seyfried), a young girl who is in love with the brooding woodcutter Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), even though she has been promised to the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Her plans to run away with Peter are shattered when the wolf kills her older sister. Suddenly everything has changed. Famed werewolf hunter Father Solomon (Gary Oldman) is sent for, but immediately warns the townsfolk that the wolf could be lurking within any one of them. As tensions rise, Valerie finds herself at the centre of Solomon's hunt, and discovers that the wolf may be closer than she ever suspected.

I am a big fan of Seyfried's and I love the fact that she has done a gothic film instead of keeping to her cheesy, girly films. The film looks very appealing as the sexual chemistry between Seyfried and Fernandez seems captivating, also I want to see how they have included the traditional fairytale into this modern film.