Red: Werewolf Hunter

Plot synopsis:
Virginia, modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood, brings her fiancé, Nathan, home to meet her family. Virginia's brothers, Marcus (Greg Bryk) and Jake (David Reale), are quick to welcome Virginia back, fondly calling her "Red", a family nickname of the first daughter in every generation. After the arrival of both people, Nathan finds a man staggering up the driveway half dead. The dying man says the name "Gabriel" before Nathan runs for Virginia. When they return, the man is already ashes. The sheriff arrives and contains the situation, much to Nathan's dismay. Virginia takes Nathan inside and explains that they hunt werewolves. Nathan, not believing her, goes for a walk at sunset. He is attacked and bitten by a werewolf who reveals his name to be Gabriel (Stephen McHattie). The next day, while preparing for a hunt, Nathan asks if they had ever turned a werewolf back. Virginia tells him that the only way to break the curse is to kill the werewolf who turned the person, before the newly bitten werewolf kills a human. Shortly after, they go hunting in town where Nathan kills a werewolf. After the wolves are dead, they find a girl locked in their car's trunk. She tells them that the wolves are planning on a "Game" that no human survives. Later that night, while setting up camp, Nathan transforms into a werewolf for the first time. Desperate to protect him, Virginia insists on locking him up for the night. Nathan awakens the next morning in a cell. With the curse over for the night, he is released for the day, to help hunt Gabriel. Back in town, Marcus and Jake are taken captive for the new "Game". When the night comes to an end, it is revealed that the brothers were killed.
The next day, the family prepare for a final battle, and Gabriel seizes the moment to kidnap Virginia. Nathan finds the brothers shortly before finding Virginia. The couple return home and finish preparations for the full moon. As the sun goes down, the battle begins. Nathan is locked in his cage with the grandmother watching him. Red kills several of the werewolves who enter the house, before confronting Gabriel. Meanwhile, the grandmother tries to shoot Nathan as he turns into a werewolf. Upon escaping from the cell, Nathan, in werewolf form, kills the grandmother. Upstairs, Virginia is pursued by Gabriel. Smearing her blood stained hand in silver paint, she smears it on Gabriel, who falls over the rail, two stories. Virginia jumps after him, plunging a silver headed harpoon into his heart. As he dies, Virginia hears the howl of a werewolf. Fearing the worst, she flees to the basement to see Nathan, but finds her grandmother dead. Grabbing a red cloak, Virginia runs to the woods to find Nathan. Werewolf Nathan attacks Virginia, knocking her out. In the morning, Virginia discovers she's been bitten. Several feet from where she fell was a trail of blood leading to an old ruined building. Inside, Nathan is human again. He pledges his love to Virginia, saying he wants a life with her. As he hugs her, Virginia stabs him with a silver knife, swearing she'll always love him. With his death, the curse on Virginia is broken. The film ends with her reading the story of Little Red Riding Hood to her daughter as a wolf howls in the distance.

Tags: violence

Review:
I really do NOT understand why people insist on watching movies that they know are movie of the week, straight to DVD, cable flicks or in this case SyFy movies and then complain about the production value, or the low budget.Red: Werewolf Hunter IS a SyFy movie.
A terrific cast including Felicia Day, Kavan Smith, Greg Bryk, and Stephen McHattie each delivered terrific overall performances.
The premise was a new take on the Red Riding Hood theme and while a little underdeveloped is really a great idea.
Know when you begin that this is a SyFy movie and was probably made for less then James Cameron spent on his toilet paper when filming Avatar.
The concept was intriguing, but considering it was SyFy(who have been responsible for a lot of terrible movies, bottom-of-the-barrel in some cases) I was also dubious.
What a surprise to see that Red: Werewolf Hunter was actually watchable.
The dialogue is weak and the acting apart from Stephen McHattie, who's a lot of fun if occasionally too strident, at times felt stiff including from Felicia Day, who seems very detached.
The story, sort of a take on Little Red Riding Hood, is mostly interesting, dark and imaginative also with an ending that was surprisingly unpredictable in how shocking and bittersweet it was, but there were also some parts that felt underdeveloped.
However, the production values are better than expected, the effects are nothing amazing with some jarring movements but there have been far cheaper ones from SyFy, but I loved the costumes and spot-on sets, the Gothic atmosphere and the photography, which is less haphazard than I thought it would be.
As with Tin Man, this is better than one would expect for a made 4 TV SyFy channel movie.
While the story is anything but original, it gives us a somewhat darker view of the Little Red Riding Hood story, along with a cohesive afterwards.Dialog delivery is a little stiff, but considering the source, I really enjoyed this, and cannot wait for it to come out on DVD/Blu-Ray, to watch it again and again.
Trying to fake it just looks plain awful.Also, if you are going to give field signals (like telling your team to do something with hand signals), again, get some advice.
"Red: Werewolf Hunter" (2010) Stars Felicia Day as a modern descendant of Little Red Riding Hood, who brings her fiancé home to meet her family.
It turns out that they're all very unique hunters and, before too long, Red is trying to protect her fiancé from her family!Although this is a Syfy film, I found it entertaining enough and entertainment is the name of the game.
The characters & locations are good and effects are decent; the story keeps your attention, and Felicia looks really good in tight jeans.The film runs 88 minutes and was shot in the Toronto area.GRADE: B-.
I LOVE Felicia Day, and waited with bated breath for this, along with Kavan Smith, deputy Andy from Eureka, another favorite of mine also gave me high hopes!
Bad dialogue, stilted acting and horrible CGI werewolves, made this tough to sit thru.
Felicia Day and the rest of the cast maintained a dull monotone that was (I guess) supposed to set a somber tone, and the entire movie takes place on three sets, repeating set pieces over and over again from the same angle, never varying once!the rest of the cast seemed to shamble along like zombies with hardly any emotion, keep in mind comedic actors have proved time and again that they have remarkable timing.
A great story and that head werewolf- Gabriel- put on a superb performance.
What I got was a mix of both.The story was ripe with plot holes and confusion from the start, with an incredibly clueless main actor, and a main actress who should have been able to act much better than what she delivered.
None of their weapons look anything short of comical, and none of the hunters know how to handle the weapons.That being said, while watching it I could barely even bring myself to criticize the horrible acting, or moronic dialog, or even the plot, because they all blended together to create one mind-numbing, boring mess.The only (and I mean ONLY) good quality about this movie was the antagonist, who showed a fair amount of acting talent.I personally would have deleted everything except around 5 minutes of footage.
Overall, this movie has a few rare moments of quality, but spends most of its time lulling the audience to sleep, and isn't worth watching..
I didn't think Felicia Day could act this poorly, but she along with the entire cast seem to be phoning this one in for a paycheck.
What little story there is could have been condensed into an episode of The Guild, and one of the shorter episodes at that.Don't waste your time, or ruin your image of Felicia Day. If you haven't seen this yet, avoid it.
Rent Red Riding Hood, it actually has a plot and people making an effort.
After Tin Man and Alice, two excellent SyFy originals, I expected more from this film.Felicia Day and Stephen McHattie are excellent as usual; however, its (not complete) lack of background music to set the mood and its weak story left a gaping hole in my heart.The weak story: The idea that an entire town of werewolf denizens has a truce with a single family of Little Red Riding Hood descendants puts huge strain on my suspension of disbelief.The cast: Felicia Day puts her all into this role and Stephen McHattie is a veteran in terms of horror villains.
Nerd heartthrob Felicia Day stars as Red, a werewolf hunter who finds herself at odds with her werewolf hunting family when her fiancé turns in this ridiculous Syfy film that 'updates' the Little Red Rding Hood story.Cheap, needlessly melodramatic, and pretty much uninteresting all the way around.
Even the normally entertaining Day is pretty bad here.
Traveling out to visit her family, a woman's history of werewolf hunting comes to the forefront when he comes into contact with a werewolf looking to rebuild their society and brings the team together to stop his plans once and for all.This one was quite enjoyable if a somewhat problematic effort.
That all of this occurs here with the enforcement of a lot of action takes on quite a fun time here as there's plenty of chances to let their hunting and weaponry get showcased, from the initial attack in the forest where he meets their leader and chases him through the whole forest or the later attack in the abandoned town where they easily overpower the loner werewolves still around, while the big fun comes from them stumbling upon the werewolf gang's hunting game which is quite thrilling with the showing of the gang being held captive and sent out onto town to be hunted and slaughtered in quite fun scenes.
As well, there's even more fun here in the final half where there's plenty of different raids and encounters with the creatures as the groups' raid on their hideout or the ambush in town lead to some nice times here as well as the scenes of the brothers fighting off the creatures in the woods.
The last big plus here is the action-packed finale, which has so much to like with the home defenses bringing about lots of action, the brawling being rather fun and the battle to save him being a fine enough addition here, even with the few flaws here.
The biggest is the werewolves themselves which are a joke all around, from their CGI incarnations which is full of the usual flaws, but the transformations look even worse done in this manner and they tend to spend the majority of time simply making grandiose speeches about their history and how to learn how to transform.
Along with the fact that he was able to fool professional werewolf hunters with his condition quite easily that's about the only real chink in their armor of convincingness in their job, these issues lower this one overall.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Language..
Virginia 'Red' Sullivan (Felicia Day) is bringing home her fiancé Nathan Kessler, but she has a family secret she has to tell him.
However Gabriel (Stephen McHattie) seems to have the ability to change at will and the werewolves are on the hunt.This is a lower budget production.
They would probably be better off using real FX and keeping them more hidden.Stephen McHattie is a great bad guy.
Felicia Day is pretty good as the lead.
Unfortunately the leading actress does not convince, Felicia Day's expression basically remains exactly the same throughout, and her chemistry with her fiancé is almost non-existent.The pluses, the villain is excellent, sinister and menacing enough without being too hammy, and the premise, it's a good one.
That was the most frustrating part of the film, the potential to be good, if strictly B Movie hammy, was utterly wasted in the rather lacklustre direction and a script that kept running out of ideas.
The climactic fight was mostly anti-climactic, and with the conclusion to that fight being pretty much telegraphed before it began, using the great circle method of ending a story (grandma dying whilst killing a werewolf kicks off the opening scenes child Red picks up a silver knife, ending the film with grandma dying is supposed to pack an emotional punch, because now Adult descendant Red has to decide what she is going to do about fiancé who killed grandma) only works if there have been enough emotional punches along the way to set up their final tragic encounter.
The final scene is clearly supposed to be a few years later and we see Red reading to a little girl on the couch.
Presumably this is Red's little girl by dead fiancé, but when we last saw Red she was bitten, so she's a werewolf?
Good B movie horror flick.
But as a grade B movie goes this one is pretty darn good.
Way above the usual made-for- SyFy fare.As someone else said, the dialog is weak and Felicia Day's delivery is just plain flat.
The sets and lighting were pretty good; the filmmakers resisted the temptation to build artificial suspense by shooting everything in perpetual darkness.Overall, a good fun B movie..
There was no bad plot twist, nothing to make it out more than what it was: good guys vs.
The bad guys, led by Stephen McHattie, are a new breed of werewolf able to shift forms at will.
They're sick of a long standing truce with a family of hunters and set out to change things, making the earth theirs to roam free once more.
"Red" (a name of honor given to the first female hunter of each generation) brings home her new FBI fiancée to meet the fam and give him the lowdown on her particular family tree.
And trouble ensues.This is either a decent made-for-TV-movie, or as I thought watching it, a freakin' GREAT video game.
I'll throw in there the last 60 seconds or so of this film were theatre worthy.Like I said, fun for a bit on the weekend..
A equals B equals C equals A, or whatever." And boy, should I have listened.So I watched SyFy's (sic!) Tin Man and Alice and thought, "well, those were {more than} a bit good, so this might also be alright..."WRONG.
It could've tried passing itself as a {bad} horror movie, it certainly had the body count for it (I can almost see some Whedon fan-boy (devoid, naturally, of anything resembling talent or imagination) writing this while drooling profusely), except it didn't.
Speaking of the rev, he may have looked okay on Haven (but that's down to not having enough screen-time to really make himself look inept and having guys like Eric Balfour to compete with (my grandma could do a better job and she's been in the ground for nearly twenty years now)), but he's absolutely bland.And one final note to the writers: BACK-STORY.
Warning, this may contain spoilers.Much has been said already about the CGI (get over it, it's a budget SYFY movie) and the atrocious acting and monotonous delivery already, so I won't expand on it.Instead, I'll focus on these so-called experienced werewolf hunters, one of whom is supposedly also a top-notch FBI agent who "kicked the ass" of the best in the Academy.Seriously, I've seen better combat skills from 17-year-olds at airsoft games.There's nothing in the manner that any of the characters act that lends any credibility to the idea that they routinely hunt werewolves or (in the case of the two Feds in the story) even normal human fugitives.Being a werewolf movie, Willing Suspension of Disbelief is required to accept the premise that werewolves are real for the sake of the movie.That Willing Suspension of Disbelief should not have to extend to accepting that this pack of useless sods has somehow managed to survive multiple encounters with dangerous shape-shifting monsters, despite their obvious lack of any tactical or combat ability.If you're going to portray hardened/seasoned combat veterans, at least watch a few videos of real soldiers in action if you don't want to spend money on a proper adviser.The scene that finally consigned this to the scrap heap was when "Red" ran upstairs in the midst of the fight: A werewolf starts climbing into the room behind her, making enough noise to alert the most obtuse or inattentive person and yet this "kick-ass" Federal Agent and seasoned werewolf-hunter does not notice it.And for dealing with attacking packs, you'd think - given silver bullets are specifically mentioned as effective and they use them in their pistols - that the heavy armaments on their house would be belt-fed machine-guns (you actually see Red grab an ammo belt at one stage but it's never used in anything) rather than single-shot spear-guns..
Skiffy all the way.So the plot is the descendants of Little Red all gather together at a house the same weekend the Werewolves decide to break the truce and start attacking people again.So poor quality CGI abounds.But I'll give the movie its props for some okay acting, tight story progression and a bad guy who looked like a real bad guy.worth a rental?
I am not a fan of horror movies: the plots are usually captivating but I don't get thrills from watching zombies/murderers/werewolves jump out at me.
However, that was not the issue here, the movie was far from anything scary, the werewolves looked comical if anything.
The major issues were the plot, the characters, and the acting.I'll admit, I only watched this movie because of Felicia Day, but had I known the plot ahead of time I would have never gotten myself into this mess.
The characters were dull, all completely unchanging, talking in monotone (like someone said above).
The short fight scenes with Felicia were somewhat fun to watch but very choppy nonetheless.Plot: 2/10.
Red (Felicia Day) brings Nathan (Kavan Smith) home to meet her family.
While there he gets bitten by a werewolf and puts a strain on their relationship as her family hunts werewolves.
If werewolves are people during the day, they could use guns for killing also...just a thought.
The acting didn't come across as strong.In one scene the werewolves have three people in shackles.
In order to kill a werewolf, its heart must be pierced with silver, although for some werewolves their heart is through their stomach.Worth watching for free on TV, if nothing else is on.Parental Guide: No f-bombs, sex, or nudity..
Not that bad a movie.
You have the descendants of the original Red Riding Hood who are continuing the fight against werewolves.
Granny manages to kill the werewolf with a silver knife and this starts the adventure.
Coming home with her fiancée the current Red (the first born daughter in each generation) learns that the current crop of wolfies have broken the truce that has been in place.
Now Red has been bitten I guess but she is shown at the very end of the film reading to her daughter about their heritage.
Henry and Kristl turned Red: Werewolf hunter (2010).
He could do no less."Yes?" Kristl sat up.."And everyone is dead." Henry continued."Quite dead..except for Red herself.""Even her lover gets killed in the end, by herself no less.
Poor Red." Henry said."I wonder where that kid comes from that sits on her lap at the end scene." Kristl said, "I wonder many things.
Like why make another werewolf movie?""That is simple.
I liked it that Red was not a such a tough chick with no feelings and they added this complication in that her lover was also turned into a werewolf against his will.""Yeah, but the low budget made it suffer.
I even had the feeling it was a seventies or eighties movie, but it is made in 2010.""There are a few nice scenes, like when she was a little girl see a werewolf attack her mother while Red is hiding up in the attic.
For instance there is a strong reference to Little Red Riding Hood and the movie starts out like a modern version, but this is never referenced or used in any fashion.
And nothing is done with fact that Red is actually an FBI agent."And except for a few scenes, the whole cinematography technique of this movie is just sloppy.
It is not scary, it is just plain odd.""But it isn't too bad a movie." Henry said."Maybe.
If they had just a tad more budget, cut down on the cgi and had the actors act better it might have been decent, now it is just a less- than-decent movie.""A time waster really." "Good to know you had your fun yesterday.""Yeah, lame movies are good for recovering from hangovers." Henry nodded his head, then regretted it."And to take a nap." Kristl said, "You miss nothing when you do.""Right."Also at http://meritcoba.wordpress.com with pictures.