“Red Riding Hood” HD Trailer Starring Amanda Seyfried

Catherine Hardwicke might be best known for directing the first film of the Twilight Saga, but her directorial debut, Thirteen, is what really put her on Hollywood’s radar. Before her directing debut Hardwicke was a production designer on numerous films, and it looks as if her eye for production design has given her an edge in a new telling of the famous fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. This incarnation of Red Riding Hood drops the little, and makes the role sexy with up and comer Amanda Seyfried. While not a true to legend telling of the story, it looks fantastic in its uses of bright colors against drab backgrounds. The look of a horror element adds just enough intrigue to the film to make it one of my film’s to keep an eye on next year.

Synopsis:

In “Red Riding Hood,” Seyfried plays Valerie, a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry (Max Irons). Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie’s older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. For years, the people have maintained an uneasy truce with the beast, offering the creature a monthly animal sacrifice. But under a blood red moon, the wolf has upped the stakes by taking a human life. Hungry for revenge, the people call on famed werewolf hunter, Father Solomon (Gary Oldman), to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon’s arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves. As panic grips the town, Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast–one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect…and bait.

Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Gary Oldman, Max Irons, Billy Burke, Virginia Madsen, Julie Christie
Directed By: Catherine Hardwicke
Release Date: March 11, 2011