This weekend Seyfried stars in a modern take on the old Red Riding Hood story that opens in 2, 900 theaters across the country.
It twists the story of Red Riding Hood by making the wolf a werewolf who is attacking a small village.
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In Grimm's Fairy Tales, what does the wolf do to Red Riding Hood's granny or the witch plan to do to Hansel?
The story itself melds the classic tale of Little Red Riding Hood with Japanese folklore from the Edo era.
This is also the land of the deep, dark woods that Little Red Riding Hood skipped through, the land of towers tall enough for Rapunzel, and charming chocolate-box houses to tempt Hansel and Gretel.
The narrator becomes a young boy (alternately played by Noah Radcliffe and Jack Broderick) who wanders into a nearby forest to escape a family argument and gets swept up in the fast-unfolding plot, in which Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who brought down the beanstalk) run collectively afoul of a witch, a wolf and a giant.
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Meg Kennedy, 82, of Westcliff-on-Sea, is currently playing a teacher in Little Red Riding Hood at the Palace Theatre in Southend.
Studios hoped that films like Red Riding Hood and Snow White and the Huntsman would fill the hole being left by the ending of Twilight and Harry Potter.
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Akaneiro: Demon Hunters is something of a folkloric hybrid: half Little Red Riding Hood, half Japanese myth, the game is a lovely, highly-stylized action-RPG from developer American McGee and Spicy Horse Games.
Stories like Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel might be fantasy, but in the days when wolves and outlaws patrolled the forest, they were a warning for children to keep out of the woods.
Some are easy, like Little Red Riding Hood, but others such as Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Mary Poppins are tougher, but make perfect sense.
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