Adaptations of Little Red Riding Hood - Film

Film

• In the early 1960s, María Gracia starred as Little Red Riding Hood in a trilogy of Mexican films by director Roberto Rodriguez, which were then re-dubbed in English and released in the United States courtesy of K. Gordon Murray: the so-called "King of the Kiddie Matinee". These films were: La Caperucita roja (Little Red Riding Hood; 1960), Caperucita y sus tres amigos (Little Red Riding Hood and Her Friends/Little Red Riding Hood and Her Three Friends ; 1961) and Caperucita y Pulgarcito contra los monstruos (Little Red Riding Hood and the Monsters; 1962). The latter of these films also starred Cesáreo Quezadas, who reprised his recurring role of Pulgarcito (Tom Thumb).
• Liza Minnelli starred in the 1965 television film The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood with Cyril Ritchard as the Wolf and Vic Damone as the huntsman. This revisionist fairy tale is told from the Wolf's point of view.
• In 1974, The Carol Burnett Show featured a retelling of La Caperucita Roja, the Mexican version of Little Red Riding Hood, with Carol Burnett as La Caperucita Roja (Little Red Riding Hood), Carl Reiner as El Toro the Bull(instead of a wolf) and Harvey Korman as the Grandmother.
• In 1977, Soviet film studio "Belarusfilm" made the film About Red Hat (Russian: Про Красную Шапочку) (in Russian).
• Filmmaker Neil Jordan's 1984 horror/fantasy film The Company of Wolves, based on the short story by Angela Carter (above), told an interweaving series of folkloric tales loosely based on Red Riding Hood that fully exploited its subtexts of lycanthropy, violence and sexual awakening.
• In the 1987 Japanese live-action film The Red Spectacles (aka Akai Megane), the featured "young lady" (as mentioned in the French and German versions of the tale), an allegory for Fate, is dressed like the Little Red Riding Hood. A anime version of this character appeared later in the film's sequel, Jin-Roh.
• CBC aired its television film The Trial of Red Riding Hood in 1992 starring figure skater Elizabeth Manley. It premiered on the Disney Channel two years later.
• Freeway, a 1996 feature film adaptation, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon adapts the story into a modern setting in which the major characters become a psychotic but charming serial killer (named Bob Wolverton) and a sexually abused teenage girl.
• Christina Ricci starred in a 1997 short film based on the subject matter: Little Red Riding Hood.
• The 1999 Belgian short film Black XXX-Mas translates the story to a nightmarish, futuristic urban setting. "The Forest" is the nickname for the jungle-like city and "Wolfy" is a crooked police officer who hounds this film's Little Red.
• The 2001 Kenneth Liu short film Falsehood refigures the Little Red Riding Hood story as a legal drama, with the Big Bad Wolf on trial and Little Bo Peep as his attorney. Scenes between Peep and the Wolf pay homage to the Clarice Starling/Hannibal Lecter scenes in The Silence of the Lambs.
• The 2003 horror film Red Riding Hood directed by Giacomo Cimini was a darker take on the classic story.
• Singapore cult director Tzang Merwyn Tong directed a 45 minute short film in 2005 titled A Wicked Tale.
• The 2005 film Hard Candy, in which a young girl ensnares and tortures a suspected paedophile, was not originally intended to be a Red Riding Hood homage; however, the film's star, Ellen Page, incidentally chose a red hoodie to wear in the final scenes, giving them an unintended metaphoric subtext that was later exploited in advertising for the film.
• The 2006 film Red Riding Hood was a Musical film adaptation directed by Randal Kleiser, and test-released first in late 2004. The experimental virtual reality features were then enhanced for over an additional year. The film stars Morgan Thompson as "Red". Also among the actors are Henry Cavill, Ashley Rose Orr, Andrea Bowen, and music opera entertainers well known on Broadway Lainie Kazan, Debi Mazar and Joey Fatone.
• The 2006 short film Big Bad Wolves takes a black-comedy-meets-fantasy approach by having the story told from the point of view of Tarantino-style gangsters who try to convince each other that it is actually a fable about female sexuality. This version features a more classic, fairy tale approach to the narrative and visuals, but also utilizes a werewolf as a literal sexual predator.
• The 2007 horror anthology film Trick r Treat contains one story thread inspired by the tale. A girl, played by Anna Paquin, dresses up as Little Red Riding Hood for a Halloween party, but is waylaid by a serial killer in the woods. However, the story twists when she reveals herself to be a werewolf seeking her "first time".
• The 2007 family film Enchanted depicts Red Riding Hood as the villain of the story who 'tells it a little bit differently' when relating the events of the fairy tale. Princess Giselle claims that her chipmunk sidekick stopped Red from hacking the innocent wolf to death with an axe.
• Writer/director Joseph Bat is working on A Take of Little Red Riding Hood, which is expected to be released in 2009 and will feature a darker reimagining of the story.
• The Slasher film Red Riding Hood - The Blood of Red Riding Hood based on the story.
• The 2010 Syfy film Red: Werewolf Hunter starring Felicia Day, is a modern, action-film take on the story.
• The 2011 film Red Riding Hood, starring Amanda Seyfried, is a period romance/horror film based on the fairy tale.
• The film "RED" is a 2012 production starring Jodelle Ferland and Claudia Christian is modern adaption and a low-budget psychological thriller that will be shot in San Francisco.