Line #9 YMMV/RedRidingHood


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** Fever Ray (Karin Dreijer Andersson of Music/TheKnife) provides an excellent song for this film entitled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UAjpQVeFc The Wolf]]".
3	** The steamy track "Keep The Streets Empty For Me" by Fever Ray playing over the scene where Peter and Valerie makeout in the wheat grainery.
4	** While it's not in the movie, at about the same time she was filming it, Amanda Seyfried recorded a cover of Sam the Sham and the Pharaoh's 1960's classic 'Hey there, little Red Riding Hood'. Her sweet, high voice and solemn delivery makes it creepy AF. Several people have commented that it sounds like a lullaby for perverts.
5	* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Cesaire is the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] who has been for years [[SavageWolves terrorizing the village]] his daughter Valerie lived in. While living as a seemingly normal member of the community, the wolf left the people alone due to animal sacrifices for the past twenty years, before deciding to find richer hunting grounds ''in'' the city. He planned to take his daughters with him, and turn them into werewolves too, but upon finding out that Lucie wasn't his, he kills Lucie in a fit of rage. He would later take his revenge on his wife's lover, Henry's father. He'd return as a wolf and kill off the knights sent to protect the village. Confronting Valerie as a wolf, he tries to get Valerie to leave with him, threatening to kill her friend Roxanne and massacre the village if she refuses. Later on, he goes on a rampage, during which he bites off Father Solomon's hand. The next day, he kills his mother and feeds an unwitting Valerie her remains as soup, before trying to bite her against her will, and attempting to kill her LoveInterest Peter]].
6	* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/GaryOldman played [[Film/HarryPotter Sirius Black]] who can morph into a big black dog. In this movie he fights a giant black wolf that is also a person that can morph. Not to mention that Sirius is close friends with a werewolf.
7	* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: Between Valerie and Prudence. That dance sequence especially.
8	* NauseaFuel: Those are [[spoiler:her grandmother's remains]] Valerie is eating in the soup towards the end.
9	* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/KaceyRohl of ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' fame as Prudence.
10	* RomanticPlotTumor: One of the frequently-cited problems with the story is that the basic premise of a supernatural whodunit in which Red Riding Hood must uncover a werewolf {{serial killer}}'s identity and EveryoneIsASuspect is actually interesting, but the film dedicates too much time to the dull and cliched {{love triangle}} involving Valerie, Peter and Henry, which mostly exists in an attempt to appeal to ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' fans as opposed to enhancing to ''this'' story. It doesn't help that there's not much narrative tension to be derived from the love triangle, given it's made obvious from the start Valerie prefers Peter and [[HopelessSuitor Henry never truly had a chance]].
11	* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler: Valerie's father]] is the Big Bad Wolf. He wants her. Now let that sink in.
12	* TearJerker:
13	** Lucie's death in the beginning. Especially when Valerie breaks down crying over her.
14	** [[spoiler: Adrien's death at the hand of The Wolf while Henry hides behind a rock scared]].
15	** [[spoiler: Suzette's attacked by The Wolf and left with scars on her face]].
16	** [[spoiler: Claude's death all for being mistaken for The Wolf due to his love of tarot and his mental disability]].
17	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
18	** ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' haters aside, there were some people who say they wouldn't have minded a straight Hollywood version of the fairytale rather than the supposed ''Twilight'' knockoff.
19	** It's revealed that Henry's father Adrien [[spoiler: had an affair with Henry's future mother-in-law Suzette and fathered Lucie, whom he never knew was his half-sister; both Adrian and Lucie are later killed before he ever found this out]]. It could've been intriguing to explore how Henry feels about the whole thing and how it impacts his relationship with Valerie. However, Henry never seems to become aware of any of this and so it is never addressed.
20	** The revelation that [[spoiler:Valerie is descended from werewolves and has the potential to be a powerful werewolf herself]]. The film could've leaned into this more, [[spoiler:with the wolf potentially representing Valerie's more rebellious or wild side, and her being tempted by the freedom and power being a werewolf could offer her (especially considering how restrictive life could be for a young medieval woman living in a rural village and Valerie's noted dissatisfaction with her current life). However, Valerie's werewolf ancestry is really only brought up in the context of why the Wolf targets her and she instantly rejects the idea of being a werewolf without any further exploration; Valerie's onscreen rebelliousness also tends to be limited to her wanting to date a bad boy her mother disapproves of]].
21	** It's a bit disappointing we never get to see a full werewolf transformation onscreen; at best, we briefly see [[spoiler:Cesaire]] get glowing eyes and super strength during the final confrontation (while it's understandable there were no onscreen transformations prior to this moment, to keep the werewolf's identity secret, by the climax this is no longer necessary). Considering that transformation scenes are a staple of werewolf fiction and it presents an opportunity to do something visually interesting and memorable, it's a shame this movie skips this.
22	* TheWoobie:
23	** ''Claude''. He's a sweet and shy kid who's frowned upon society. The only people that actually like him are Valerie and Roxanne. [[spoiler:He gets killed for having a mental disability and an attraction to tarot cards.]]
24	** Roxanne. After her brother is arrested she offers to pay Father Solomon and starts to strip for him only for him to laugh at this. [[spoiler:She's forced to out Valerie for understanding the wolf and it turns out her brother died anyway.]]

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