In the original story of Little Red Riding Hood the Big Bad Wolf swallows the grandmother and the little girl whole, a gruesome, albeit impossible, ordeal to go through.  However, this level of gruesomeness does not compare to sitting through Red Riding Hood, a loose film adaptation of this classic story that has forever tainted my childhood memories of hearing this tale.  Let’s just say that I’d rather be swallowed alive than see this again…

In this adaptation Little Red Riding Hood isn’t so little anymore, after all that would make for one creepy romance scenario.  Instead we follow a girl named Valerie who lives in a small village within a forested region who just so happens to have a red hooded cape.  And then there’s the wolf, or in this case a werewolf that keeps the village living in fear.  When they realize that the werewolf could be living among them in human form, everyone becomes a suspect. [Read more...]