Red: Werewolf Hunter

This is one of the scariest movies ever. This has a great story line. It also has great acting. This not a 5. That is just underrating this movie. This is a 9 out 10. This is scarier then The Shinning.

A cast that tries its best despite what has to be the weakest script in creation. Some dodgy CGI. 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. Even the action scenes lacked propulsion. 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. There weren't. By this time you are actually rooting for the fiancé who was dragged into this mess by Red in the first place. She kills him. But she's been bitten. 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? At this point it was impossible to care. I love hammy creature features, but this didn't even slip into the 'so bad it's good' category.

Felicia Day shines and is absolutely delightful in this quirky SciFi production. The script is certainly above average with sharp dialog and an engaging story line. But the real treat is in the performance of Day. She is simply a natural and the camera loves her. It was a revelation when she appeared on Eureka and practically stole every episode in which she appeared. Here she carries the entire movie and does so with incredible style. She is a tremendous talent and worthy of much greater things. Viewers would do well to check out some of her internet productions and see what an innovative and creative artist she is.

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.

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. The rest of the cast, of whom I've never heard, also did fairly well in their various roles. Character development: Practically non-existent. In summary: Good cast, weak story, and I felt no connection to the characters.

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. Writers Angela Mancuso and Brook Durham would later further subject hapless Syfy viewers with another, somehow more atrocious, fairy tell updating with the awful "Witchslayer Gretl" My Grade: D

This is obviously something that must have had a half-life on the Sci-Fi channel and it shows. There are these breaks where they obviously were supposed to put in the commercials. No nudity or profanity and pretty toned down violence. 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? Only out of a Red Box.

You can't compare B movies -- low budget, largely unheard-off actors, and simplistic scripts -- with mainstream movies. 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. She really isn't a strong enough actress to lead the cast. The evolution of the romantic angle was predictable but there were enough plot twists to hold my interest. 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.

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. Low budget is little excuse for such a cheap plot (we could easily guess the whole Nathan plot line from the start). The characters were dull, all completely unchanging, talking in monotone (like someone said above). There was no action/plot/horror the first 50 minutes, they might as well have been cut out. In fact all that did was make us sick of the same setting/camera angles being used over and over again. No sense of humor, plot holes/irrational actions by the characters, the list could go on forever. The short fight scenes with Felicia were somewhat fun to watch but very choppy nonetheless. Plot: 2/10. Characters: 3/10. Setting: 2/10. Acting: 3/10. Action: 4/10.

"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-