Fifty Shades of Red
Little Red Riding Hood is a gruesome and difficult fairy tale to adapt. If you want to stay true to the original material, you'll have to add a human-eating-and-disguising wolf, which is hard to sell anyway. If you want to modernize it, you soon tend to include serial-killers, paedophiles and stalkers. As a result not many of the titles below are suited for children.
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- DirectorNeil JordanStarsSarah PattersonAngela LansburyDavid WarnerA teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.The well-known story serves as a metaphor for a sexual awakening in this film based upon Angela Carter's short story of the same name.
- DirectorAdam BrooksStarsAmelia ShankleyIsabella RosselliniCraig T. NelsonThe faithful little girl must brave the forest and the big, bad wolf to bring her grandmother a basket of goodies in this musical version of the classic fairytale.Musical and family-friendly version, part of the Cannon Movie Tales series.
- DirectorMatthew BrightStarsReese WitherspoonKiefer SutherlandBokeem WoodbineA twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.A psychotic but charming serial killer offers a sexually abused teenage girl a ride to her grandmother's house.
- CreatorConstance M. BurgeStarsHolly Marie CombsAlyssa MilanoBrian KrauseThree Halliwell sisters discover that they are descendants of a line of good female witches and are destined to fight against the forces of evil, using their combined power of witchcraft known as the "Power of Three".05x03 - Happily Ever After: An evil witch traps the Charmed Ones in warped versions of classic fairy tales. Piper relives the events of Little Red Riding Hood.
- DirectorDavid SladeStarsPatrick WilsonElliot PageSandra OhHayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff's a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Jeff thinks it's his lucky night. He's in for a surprise.The roles of the original tale are reversed in this contemporary adaptation in which a young girl ensnares and tortures a suspected paedophile.
- DirectorCory EdwardsTodd EdwardsTony LeechStarsAnne HathawayGlenn ClosePatrick WarburtonLittle Red Riding Hood, the Wolf, the Woodsman and Granny all tell the police the events that led up to their encounter.A computer-animated fairy tale parody inspired by non-linear crime dramas. Its animation is no feast for the eyes, but the film itself holds up just enough.
- CreatorRyan CoppleKaleena KiffStarsAmanda TappingChristine ChatelainPatrick GilmoreRiese, a seemingly random wanderer, is being hunted by a terrifying religious cult, The Sect. Traveling from nation to nation for years, she is accompanied only by a wolf, Fenrir. Together they must evade the assassins sent by the Sect - who'll stop at nothing to complete the task they failed to achieve many years ago. Her past is shrouded in mystery, as even Riese can't recall the events of the tragic night when her entire family was slaughtered and she was forced to flee into the wilderness. On her journey, she'll piece together her past, and her destiny, in a conflict that will hold the fate of the world in the balance - and the once peaceful kingdom of Eleysia will be the battlefield. "Riese", a unique and original steam-punk -inspired production includes Christine Chatelain ( SyFy's Sanctuary , Supernatural, The Collector, The L-Word ). Ben Cotton (Harper's Island, Stargate: Atlantis, Stan Helsing), Sharon Taylor (Stargate: Atlantis, Alice and Huck) and Patrick Gilmore (Stargate: Universe, Battlestar Galactica, Intelligence).Originally a web series, later broadcasted by Syfy channel. Liberal adaptation.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsRachel WeiszMark WahlbergSaoirse RonanCenters on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.No literal adaptation of course, but you can sense the parallels with the fairy tale.
- DirectorSheldon WilsonStarsFelicia DayKavan SmithStephen McHattieThe modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood brings her fiancé home to meet her family and reveal their occupation as werewolf hunters, but after he is bitten by a werewolf, she must protect him from her own family.Action-filled release from Syfy channel.
- DirectorMike DisaStarsHayden PanettiereGlenn ClosePatrick WarburtonRed Riding Hood is training in the group of Sister Hoods, when she and the Wolf are called to examine the sudden mysterious disappearance of Hansel and Gretel.Red must team with the Wolf to save Hansel, Gretel and Granny from the evil witch. Unfortunately this sequel does not live up to its predecessor.
- DirectorCatherine HardwickeStarsAmanda SeyfriedLukas HaasGary OldmanSet in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure.Gothic re-imagining with appealing cinematography. Romance, mystery and suspense make for a great watch.
- CreatorAdam HorowitzEdward KitsisStarsGinnifer GoodwinJennifer MorrisonLana ParrillaA young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed.In this TV series featuring many fairy tale characters, Red lives with her grandmother because her parents were killed in a hunting accident.
- DirectorSibylle TafelStarsEdgar SelgeAmona AßmannMarie GruberIn a forest town, Anton is ridiculed and bullied by most other kids as a nerdy Scaredy Cat. Hunter Joseph isn't inclined either to believe his claim of sighting the first wold in a century, but still digs a trap just in case. He has two admirers, the mayor's snob wife and her seamstress Annemarie, whose impish daughter Little red Riding Hood is Anton's friend and the pride of Annemarie's weird but inventive mother, who lives alone in the forest. When the girl is sent to bring her sick granny provisions, a pack-evicted old wolf is roaming for easy prey, like humans, and craftily manages to eat each in one piece. Anton and Joseph however patrol the woods, and take on the voracious predator.German TV adaptation of the original fairy tale and part of the Auf einen Streich series.
- DirectorRob MarshallStarsAnna KendrickMeryl StreepChris PineA witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.
- Action. Adventure. Magic. Motorcycles. In this action-packed twist on the beloved Grimm Fairytale, Red Riding will not merely face dangerous wolves; she must face the wolf within herself. Gifted with the power to transform into a werewolf, she will rise to become a legendary warrior known as the Alpha Huntress. Accompanied by bad-boy Wolfgang Helheim, Red will lead a tribe of loyal followers armed with mystical powers of their own against a vile lunar deity, who plans to thrust Wayward Woods into eternal night.
- DirectorWill KoopmanStarsThomas AcdaJulia AkkermansIva BedfordYoung musician Suus is nicknamed 'Roodkapje' for her perpetual red hat. After a local talent show, her career takes off. Overwhelmed, she and her pianist Jasper de Jager (Hunter) employ manager Wolf Uitenbosch (Wolf of the Forest). How will this modern fairy tale end?