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'Red Riding Hood' Gets 'Twilight' Spin  6:00 PM PST 3/9/2011 by
Todd McCarthy  The Bottom Line  Lame transformation of a fairy
tale into a horror whodunnit will ensnare its eagerly awaiting
young female audience.   A film of grimm banality, Red Riding
Hood puts a bloodthirsty Twilight spin on a fairy tale already
possessed of an unusually macabre climax. As it thuds along from
one wolf attack to the next, Catherine Hardwicke's first film
since taking leave of Bella and her toothy friends adamantly
refuses to provide any wit, humor or fun, concerning itself
mostly with the heroine's taxing dilemma of picking between the
rural village's two best looking boys. Still, with Warner Bros.
delivering a massive campaign aimed at a ready-and-drooling
target audience, some big opening numbers lie in wait.    Is it
Peter (Shiloh Fernandez), the cute but poor woodcutter who has
been her true love since childhood and himself would love to
take her away? Migh