Red Riding Hood

"Who's afraid?"

2011 1h 40m EN

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Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.

“Who's afraid?”

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Cast

Amanda Seyfried
Valerie
Gary Oldman
Father Soloman
Billy Burke
Cesaire
Shiloh Fernandez
Peter
Max Irons
Henry Lazar
Julie Christie
Valerie's Grandmother
Lukas Haas
Father August
Virginia Madsen
Suzette

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writers: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 15 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, shot by Mandy Walker. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Brian Reitzell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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AWARDS

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Editor Julia Wong shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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ERA

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Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman and Billy Burke carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Who's afraid?".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1486185 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Catherine Hardwicke directs. Mandy Walker behind the camera. Brian Reitzell scores. Julia Wong cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 15 years ago.
2Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, shot by Mandy Walker. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Brian Reitzell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Julia Wong shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman and Billy Burke carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Who's afraid?".
7IMDB entry: tt1486185 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 11 themes, including "winter", "fairy tale", "little red riding hood", "hood".
9Released under 17 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Mandy Walker
Original score: Brian Reitzell
Editing: Julia Wong
Production design: Thomas E. Sanders
Costume design: Cindy Evans
Makeup / hair: Tanya Hudson
VFX supervisor: Jeffrey A. Okun
Sound: David Farmer
Stunt coordinator: Andy Cheng
Runtime: 100 min · 1h 40m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $42,000,000
Box office: $89,162,162
Return: 212% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Red Riding Hood (2011)

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Andres Gomez2013-10-14
★ 6/10
Hardwicke clones Twilight style on every way in this movie: photography, editing, dialogues, disconnected story telling and even the looks of the male hero. However, the script is interesting and keeps you hooked on not knowing what's going on until the end.
s6kx2024-06-23
★ 9/10
This artistic masterpiece is unfortunately undervalued. Unfortunately, Warner Bros. Entertainment does not know its worth, and due to their lack of interest in it, it has become obscure. This artistic masterpiece must be revived again. Warner Bros. Entertainment must do this, just as 20th Century Fox did when it released two improved releases of the Titanic movie in 2003 and 2012. Who would believe that a movie released in 1997 is now available in 4K quality and 3D technology?! Warner Bros. Entertainment must re-release the movie trailer in 4K quality as a first step to correct its course, and launch a new strong marketing campaign for the Red Riding Hood movie, just as it launched a strong marketing campaign for the Barbie movie that does not deserve it. They should do this for the movie that deserves it, not the opposite. Essentially, the reason for the lack of fame of the Red Riding Hood movie was the failure of Warner Bros. Entertainment in its marketing campaign for the movie, as it was a very weak campaign, in addition to its excessive pursuit of the PG-13 age rating instead of accepting its R-rating, which led to changing the ending for the PG-13 rated cut. The reason was not the movie itself or the director Catherine Hardwicke. In fact, Catherine Hardwicke directed the movie in an unimaginable way, especially in the unrated original cut of the movie known as the Alternate Cut. The existence of a rated cut without additional terms such as (Alternate Cut) does not necessarily mean that it is the original cut. In fact, the original cut is the one that was not modified to fit the PG-13 age rating. The original cut is the one that was released as is without modifications. The original cut is the one that the MPAA did unrate, so you always find the word Unrated next to it. The original cut is the Alternate Cut, and it was not named Director's Cut because Warner Bros. Entertainment changed the ending of the PG-13 rated cut to fit the PG-13 age rating. Therefore, it is no longer possible to name the original cut as Director's Cut, as this title does not include the change in the ending. Therefore, they had to name the original cut as the Alternate Cut to include the change in the ending. As you know, production companies do not like the R-rating because it narrows the audience range, which reduces revenues. Therefore, Warner Bros. Entertainment pressured Catherine Hardwicke to modify the movie to be released with a PG-13 age rating instead of an R-rating. This explains why the ending was changed in the rated cut compared to the unrated original cut. In my opinion, both cuts are successful artistic masterpieces, but the original cut is more artistically successful, and I loved it more. My rating for the rated cut (modified) is 9/10, and my rating for the unrated original cut (Alternate Cut) is 10/10. It is the best and greatest of all time in presenting the story of Red Riding Hood, and no movie surpasses it in presenting this story. Thank you, Catherine Hardwicke, for this artistic masterpiece.