History Film / RedRidingHood

* HolyBurnsEvil: When the Wolf tries to get Valerie when she's on sanctified church ground, it's paw is burned.

* InterspeciesRomance: Werewolves and their normal human partners (often unbeknownst to the humans). Kind of averted since [[spoiler: Peter]] is a wolf once a month..

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Peter. He's wears dark clothes, isolates himself from others and is one of many people in the village suspected of being The Wolf. [[spoiler: He's not actually. Just a loner who struggles with making a financial living as a woodcutter]].

* SnowMeansDeath: After the Wolf kills its first victim, it begins to snow. As the bodies start to pile up from there, there's ots of running around and fighting in the snow and blood being spattered over the snow.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: [[spoiler: While being sacrificed as a witch and used as bait to lure the Wolf, Valerie's friend Prudence mocks her of this in jealously, telling her that she always thought she was "too smart and too pretty and too perfect".]]

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Valerie's sister Lucie was in love with Henry, who turned out to be her paternal half-brother. This may explain why her mother arranged a marriage between Henry and Valerie instead of her. [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Adding to that, Henry is ''actually'' in love with Valerie, who is technically his step-sister.]]]]

* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Father Solomon warns the townspeople that when a real werewolf is slain, it's true form should be a human head. All that the townspeople had collected was simply a beheaded common grey wolf.

* TheWitchHunter: Father Solomon, hunts down witches and werewolves. Like most examples, he will make wild accusations and liberally use torture against suspects (who are entirely innocent). However, there ''is'' a real werewolf who he tries to stop (ineffectually).

* AdaptationExpansion: Of the original fairytale.

** Peter resembles [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen]] somewhat.

* BettyAndVeronica: Valerie is at the center of a LoveTriangle between the {{rebel|lious spirit}} Peter (Veronica) and NiceGuy Henry (Betty).

-->'''Suzette''': [[spoiler: I didn't love your father when we were first married. I was in love with another man. ''(Valerie looks at her in shock)'' But I came to love your father, and he gave me two beautiful daughters...]]

* MissingTrailerScene: Valerie breathing heavily and saying "What big eyes you have" before looking up and then closing her eyes as the Wolf growls and breathes on her.

-->'''Valerie''': [[spoiler: It was Adrien, wasn't it? The man you loved? Lucie was in love with him [Henry]! She was a year older than me! She could've married him! Why did you insist it was me?]]\\

-->'''Valerie''': [[spoiler: Papa, what are you doing here? Where's Grandmother?]]\\

-->'''Peter''': [[spoiler: Ow! He bit me.]]

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Valerie's sister Lucie was in love with Henry, who turned out to be her paternal half-brother. This may explain why her mother arranged a marriage between Henry and Valerie instead of her. [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Adding to that, Henry is ''actually'' in love with Valerie, who is technically his step-sister.]]

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Valerie's sister Lucie was in love with Henry, who turned out to be her half-brother. This may explain why her mother arranged a marriage between Henry and Valerie instead of her. [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Adding to that, Henry is ''actually'' in love with Valerie...]] ]]

* AnAxeToGrind: Peter's weapon of choice. Makes sense, given he's a woodcutter.

''Red Riding Hood'' is a 2011 supernatural horror-romance film and re-imagining of [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood the popular fairy tale]] directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Creator/AmandaSeyfried as the girl in the hood.

** [[spoiler: Valerie and Peter's heated make-out in the wheat grainery]].

* TakingTheBullet: Or more specifically, "projectile silver stake". Henry takes a shot meant for Valerie.

** After Valerie is arrested as a witch and chained up for the Wolf, her so-called friend Prudence comes up to her and states she thinks she's getting what she deserves, as she was always "too perfect".
** The guards eat the food Grandmother had sent to Valerie [[spoiler: after she is locked up and accused of being a witch.]]

* TakingTheBullet: Or more specifically, "projectile silver stake".

* FanService:

** Suzette comforting Valerie by confessing that like Valerie, she didn't love her arranged spouse at first when we're married -- she was in love with another man. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite her though, and change the film's perceptions]].

* AssholeVictim: Possibly [[spoiler: Father Solomon]].

* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: [[spoiler: Suzette's affair with her love Adrian results in the death of her child Lucie, herself being attacked and left injured by The Wolf in her sleep (actually Cesaire) and many casualties, among other things.]]

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Father Solomon. ''"[[IronicEcho A man bitten is a man cursed]]."'']]

%%* IAteWhat: [[spoiler: Valerie's reaction more or less when she starts eating the stew her "grandmother" cooked up in the cauldron. Notice the red color...]] %%What was her reaction?

* OffingTheOffspring: Subverted. [[spoiler: Cesaire killed Lucy after finding out she wasn't really his biological daughter.]]

* PlotIncitingInfidelity: [[spoiler:Suzette's affair with Henry's father is the reason why Cesaire even starts the whole [[BuffySpeak murderous-rampage-kill-people-and-get-revenge-thing]]]].

* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Valerie's sister Lucie loves Henry, who turns out to be her half-brother. This may explain why her mother arranged a marriage between Henry and Valerie instead of her. [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Adding to that, Henry is ''actually'' in love with Valerie...]] ]]

* TokenRomance: Averted; the romance provides the movie with plot points.

%%* DeathIsASadThing

* EveryoneIsASuspect: Until the werewolf's human identity is revealed, no one is above suspicion. Except [[TheHero Valerie]] and everyone who is seen on-screen at the same time as the wolf, that is. Of course, few major characters beside Valerie do appear as the same time as the wolf.

* IAteWhat: [[spoiler: Valerie's reaction more or less when she starts eating the stew her "grandmother" cooked up in the cauldron. Notice the red color...]]

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: [[spoiler: Lucie's death causes anguish in Valerie's family and much change to the small village who have spent years sacrificing small animals to The Wolf to protect themselves]].

''Red Riding Hood'' is a 2011 live-action adaptation of the novel by Sarah Blakely-Cartwright and re-imagining of [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood the popular fairy tale]] directed by Catherine Hardwicke and starring Creator/AmandaSeyfried as the girl in the hood.

* InterspeciesRomance: Werewolves and their normal human partners (often unbeknownst to the humans).

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The Wolf talks like he could be Peter, and Valerie's grandmother is really creepy. They've both got brown eyes too, which the Wolf is revealed to have. Also, Madame Lazar, Prudence, Father Auguste who also have brown eyes. Ultimately, neither of them turn out to be the Wolf.]]