Red Riding Hood. Catherine Hardwicke, 2011.
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Edition screened: Warner ‘Alternate Cut’ Blu-ray, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: Murder of an innocent wolf, animal sacrifice preparations.
Details:
1) A piglet is chained to a stump as a sacrifice to the werewolf, 1:58-2:18.
2) A rabbit is caught by two children and there is deliberation over which gets to kill it, 3:00-3:38.
3) A wolf (not the werewolf) is gang-hunted and killed. We see its head displayed on a pike 22:18-23:33, and again 27:37-30:10.
4) The werewolf kills a horse by lunging at its throat, 42:58-43:03. Somehow this is not bloody or graphic.
This adaptation is set in the nebulous era of a Renaissance Fair, incorporating historical clichés ranging from the Dark Ages through English settlement of North America with some quotations from the Smurf Village. The town is populated exclusively by well-groomed family units in which the children appear to be 17, the parents 25, and village elders 40 except for the priest who is 20 tops. They all are named things like Valerie and Roxanne and Brent and have really nice hair. Poor Gary Oldman was duped into playing Van Helsing dressed like Rasputin.