Synopsis
She's not afraid of the big bad wolves.
The residents of a small town discover that something more sinister than killer wolves is lurking in the backwoods: first the wolves start turning up dead...then people.
Directed by Jared Cohn
The residents of a small town discover that something more sinister than killer wolves is lurking in the backwoods: first the wolves start turning up dead...then people.
Caperucita Muerta, 嗜血小紅帽, Маленькая мёртвая шапочка, 리틀 데드 로팅 후드, Gnijący Kapturek, A Vizinhança Assombrada, Мертвая красная шапочка, 复活的小红帽, Mirusī Sarkangalvīte, Mrtvá Karkulka
Little Dead Rotting Hood was the next stop in my Eric Balfour mini tour, and I perked up when greeted with The Asylum logo because I instantly knew what kind of ride I was in for. It’s that particular brand of schlock I occasionally find myself indulging in, and truthfully, it’s not all bad. Balfour’s presence gives it a slight boost, lending a shred of watchability to an otherwise forgettable outing. The main issue, though, is that it often drifts into dull territory, and if you’re going to be schlock, dullness is the one sin you can’t afford. I’m there for a fun mess, not to be bored to death. Still, it’s another one off the list, and I’m more than ready to cleanse the palate with del Toro’s Frankenstein before diving back into this wonderfully trashy corner of cinema.
The fact I went into this thinking it'd actually be good is testament to how fucking low my standards have gotten.
The ps2 calibre werewolf boss at the end really was the last straw. This entire film could've been funny at least, had it not been so joyless.
If you're still not convinced to skip this: brought to you by The Asylum.
In all fairness, I reckon this is a highlight in their filmography.
With "Little Dead Rotting Hood," The Asylum, the schlock house known for its low-rent genre outings, makes a surprisingly half-way decent film. Rest assured, fans of the typical trash made by The Asylum. "Little Dead Rotting Hood" is full of the studio's token dubious effects and acting, but the story about werewolves and the woman who can control them is earnest and compelling. The production, more importantly, is never terrible. The experience is mediocre, but this is an almost-worthy horror film in the right direction.
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I'd heard this was an Asylum film, but for most of the runtime I didn't believe it because it's actually...decent. There was no over reliance on cheap cgi, they had real wolves for most of the scenes, the story was interesting and I dunno Eric Balfour seems like he isn't low enough to appear in one of their movies. But then the big, bad evil werewolf showed up and it was total crap cgi and the bullets were bouncing off him in that way that they do in an Asylum film and the story also took a turn for the worse. I knew I was in The Asylum country.
One of their better ones though.
A bit better than most of the asylum productions, but not really good. The mix of werewolf,fantasy and animal horror was enjoyable in parts. But some of it looked pretty cheap as you would expect from an asylum movie, especially the final big werewolf looked pretty bad.
The conceit here is that little red riding hoods are actually forest protectors. The current one, grandma Esmeralda who is played by Star Trek: The Next Generation's Marina Sirtis, can't face the current werewolf threat that just killed her granddaughter. So she kills herself and transfers all her power to her dead granddaughter, played by Bianca A. Santos, who crawls out of her grave the next day. This is pretty good considering it an Asylum movie. The full reveal werewolf is bad CGI, but they at least made it twenty feet tall to be kind of different. Eric Balfour, the town sheriff, also does a fine job with what he was given.
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I was a bit excited to check this out because I thought it would at least be interesting to see how a company as infamous as The Asylum went about adapting this story (likely 5 years too late to take advantage of mockbuster status with Red Riding Hood), but of course I was disappointed. There's at least some good with one of my personal favorite actors Eric Balfour being involved and the occasion surprising subversion of horror tropes (notably the man being the one to ask his partner if she heard the monster and the woman insisting they continue making out with him fully clothed and her in her underwear).
Also I'm pretty sure the house that the secondary main character goes to ten minutes in is the exact same house we see in 2007's Lake Dead.
After a series of savage animal attacks, the sheriff of a small town finds that the town is being invaded by a pack of vicious werewolves that were previously held in control by a powerful werewolf hunter and that a thought-missing townsperson has become the new protector to stop the creatures.
For the most part, this was quite an enjoyable and somewhat entertaining effort. A lot of the positives in this one comes from the strong storyline at play here, which brings a modern twist to the werewolf-hunter setup that gets employed here. This one tackles the idea of a supernatural protector coming back from the dead and combating the werewolves attacking people under the guise of her sacrificial offering.…
This was the best kind of awful. As an Asylum film it's aware of how crap it is but that doesn't stop it from having a bit of fun. Perfect mindless watching!
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Another fairy tale adaptation and once again a very adult bloody one with some great kills and bare boobs on show. A good cast with 3 Familiar faces, its an updated story and set in America, it's a very different story and another well put together film, well until the end showdown with the huge werewolf that is a very poor CGI creation, its even worse because it's on screen for so long and up until then they used real wolves in most of the attack scenes and it looked really good and bloody. So yet another well put together film.
You would think with a title like Little Dead Rotting Hood the film would at least be silly, nonsense and a little fun but no just completely boring as they come.
I also feel like the guy or people who came up with the title gave them self and pat on the back and thought they were dead clever.
I don't know how they do it but Asylum, wait this was Asylum right, but anyway Asylum just has a way of making these movies as boring as humanly possibly.
The story telling feels straight out of a porn or something, not even a good porn but a bad porn which seems to never get anywhere and much like a porn…