There You Have It…My Opinion
By Cambria Hebert
Title: Red Riding Hood
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Book by: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright (Ebook and Paperback)
Format: DVD
Rating: PG-13
Genre: American Horror, Paranormal
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Billy Burke, Virgina Madsen
Believe the Legend. Beware the Wolf.
I do. Do you?
The town of Daggerhorn is a town ruled by fear. Those who live there look over their shoulders and protect their children from a violent beast who threatens the lives they lead. Every month during the full moon they sacrifice their very best livestock trying to appease the wolf.
Wolf, you say? What wolf?
A werewolf. A giant, black hairy wolf with dripping chompers and a menacing growl.
But the sacrifices are no longer enough and the wolf slaughters one of their own. A girl. A daughter. A sister. Valerie’s sister.
Valerie is the daughter of the town drunk, her hand is promised to the son of the wealthy blacksmith, but her heart belongs to the sexy woodcutter, Peter.
Oh, and the wolf wants to bite her.
Panicked by the recent death of Lucy (Valerie’s sister), they call upon Father Solomon, a famous werewolf hunter. He arrives in town with the calvary and a giant iron elephant.
An elephant that he uses to torture people.
But, the wolf is more cunning than the town might once have thought. As it terrorizes the entire town during the Blood Moon (when a bite from a were will turn you), everyone begins to look around them…at each other. Toward their neighbor. Their friend. Their wife.
Who is the beast that lives among them? Who is the beast that has blended in for decades and never once shown the second skin that lies just beneath their human façade?
Valerie knows that the only way to escape the claws of a rabid, yet wily, menace is to kill it. But as she searches the faces of everyone she loves looking for answers, only then does it become crystal clear…sacrificing herself may be the only way to discover the truth.
Literary Lunes Magazine, January 2012 Issue Page 10