The Story of 'Little Red Riding Hood' (1949)

The Story of Little Red Riding Hood

“I first encountered these semi-campy, semi-terrifying stop-motion fairy tale films from Ray Harryhausen on a VHS tape collecting hundreds of public domain cartoons. Sandwiched in-between Fleischer cartoons, Little Audrey, Felix the Cat, and Mighty Mouse, these things stuck out not only for their jerky animations but for their joyous expressions of terror and violence.   Granted, “The Story of Little Red Riding Hood” does tame much of the sex, violence, and gore of the original tale. The wolf doesn’t get cut open here only to have his stomach filled with rocks and sewn back together. Nope, he’s merely shot, but makes a quick escape. It’s possible he dies off-screen, but it’s slightly opaque, much like the sexual violence he commits to Red, which is noticeably absent here.  ” read more