Reese Witherspoon, Brittany Murphy, Brooke Shields and Kiefer Sutherland feature in this twisted take on Little Red Riding Hood. This movie is not for the light hearted; it is violent, full of sexual abuse, dirty handedness and is riddled with extremely disturbing situations.
...It's Brilliant!!!
Vanessa (Red Riding/ Reese Witherspoon) is from a family of drug users and prostitutes. After both her mum and step father get put in jail (again), she decides to drive to her grandmother's and takes the freeway. The car breaks down and a stranger (who introduces himself as a psychologist) offers to give her a lift. It turns out that this character plays the part of Big Bad Wolf... and his name is Mr Bob Wolverton (played by Kiefer Sutherland)...clever.
After a while she finds out that he is a high-profile serial killer - who constantly appears in the press - and he tries to kill her. I love the Vanessa character; she is a girl that doesn't take shit from anyone. Vanessa turns the table on him and fights back - hard, with a bullet in his neck and three in his back. She then takes his money, leaves him for dead and goes on her merry way - like what just happened was the most normal thing in the world.
He survives!!!
She gets caught by the police and is going to get charged/trailed as an adult - she is only 16 years old. Since she has a record from having a dysfunctional family and a rough up- bringing, she gets the blame and people think that she is lying about the whole event. He gets away with it, or so he thinks.
The rest of the movie follows her as she escapes jail, evades the law and finally gets to her grandmothers. After an intense final showdown it freeze frames on her face, with a bloodied joker's grin & an evil giggle as it fades out to the credits.
Watch this movie; its bloody, gory and has lots of dark humour.
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