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.

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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.

The big bad wolves are bad & they are really bad!

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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.

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.