This movie is plain and simple an "okay" movie. It's nothing special, but nothing terrible, furthermore it succeeds in places, and drastically fails in others. For starters I'll talk about the main character "Jenny". I could easily see from the beginning of the movie, what the desired effect for the character was, it was the clichéd innocent little girl with an evil twist. And to be honest I got bored with it. I can't tell whether the girls acting was terrible or whether it was the character. I felt no emotion towards any other characters and it can be seen that little time was spent on creating them. The character of Jennys tutor, "Tom" was played by a relatively unknown actor and wasn't that bad, just too simplistic. The grandmother was the only good acting in the film to be honest. Don't even get me started on the character of "George". George is a six foot tall monster that follows Jenny as she does her duty. I think George was created to add some form of horror and mystery into an otherwise dull plot. The morals shown by the main protagonist are so corrupt and predictable, it made me ask the question. "If this girl is so intelligent and all knowing why does she succumb to the things she does?" It made no sense, the director obviously just wanted to add some moral value into the flick, trying to get a reaction, which failed. Is this movie a black comedy, well, it tries to be. One good thing Is the placement of the repetitive music, yes some music was played over and over, but they were used brilliantly. The direction wasn't terrible either. It could have been something great with a better lead actor, and better scriptwriting. All in all 6/10.

It was...different. It wasn't what I was expecting although I'll admit I didn't really read the back of the DVD case when I rented it. All I saw was the cover and it was in the horror section so I figured what the hey, but I liked it. It was an interesting little spin on the fairy tale. Very cool. But that was one messed up little girl. Not to mention I think I spent half the movie trying to figure out if George was real or not. And the ending was a little dumb. But I LOVE the mask and the music. I agree it was very Dario Argentoish which is probably why I liked it. I love the really gory movies. I think this is one movie I would like to add to my DVD collection.

I would never rate this as the worst movie of all time. That is doing a disservice to truly horrible movies everywhere, and we don't wanna do that. Neither would I call it one of the best ever, or fantastic, or awesome, as some have described it. That would just be discrediting myself, my induce some form of self-hatred. And lastly, I would choose not call it the most mediocre of films, because we have a much higher standard and benchmark for our made-for-TV movies. It's a sad little film that hovers and swims around the bottom of the barrel, lacking the true substance to pridefully sink to the bottom. In this case, it's just easier to point out faults, because if I had to comment on positive points, I wouldn't be able to complete 10% of the ten text line quota for comments. Everyone got their seat-belts on? Let's go.The cinematog. isn't utterly deplorable, and they sometimes can make the 8mm look half decent and not so "soap-opera-ishy", but other times it likes my Grandfathers hand-held tanning machine video, like the beginning of the show 'Wonder Years'. Okay, sorry, it's never that good. Really bad mixing in the beginning.music to loud, and the speech levels are not constant, but they do balance out somewhat over the film and you won't miss any dialog after the 15 minute mark. At least not in dolby surround. The bigger problems arise from poor and inappropriate uses of music to set moods. The music changes from really childish renditions of some Luis Prima type music to crappy Hip-Hop beats and baselines, and then back again. When a film does not have a big budget, and you can't afford royalty fees, unless you know some really good musicians that'll play for free, don't rely on music as a major device for anything.This is one of the few movies where you can see extras and people on the street smiling at the camera in some of the earlier scenes. I didn't think the grandmother(Kathleen Archibald) did a bad job at all. I actually feel that any actor who was in a scene with Jenny, (Susanna Satta) that didn't puke or laugh, should get an honorary Oscar and at least a purple heart. The lead in this movie gives us what is easily one of the worst performances by any actor/actress, anywhere, EVER. You will feel like Ed Wood was reincarnated into his ideal of form: The female love-child of Valerie Bertnelli and Bert from Sesame Street. Whether its her eyebrow that a cyclops would just die for, or her hammy fourth grade caliber recitals of Don Quixote(and all her lines for that matter); You will want to take an orbital sander to her forehead, and you will WANT HER TO DIE. The scariest part of this movie is realizing that some director, casting director, or producer put her in a film that we may all be forced to see one day. This is like the Salvation Army going around to everyone's house and giving out copies of the video tape from 'The Ring/Ringu'. Someone said that she certainly didn't help her career, but also didn't hamper it. If she gets serious work in the future, thats like a girl from your graduating class performing a 'Donkey-Show' at prom, and then becoming president of the United States. An honest to goodness travesty. These B-movies all have stage actors and that does not translate well in front of a camera. On stage you have to ham it up and over do it so you can involve people in the back of the theatre. On film, it just makes you hope that you rented a 'Scanners' sequel by accident and the actors head will just start explode. The movie tries to pay homage to other horror films like 'Misery' and 'An American Werewolf in London', but it seems contrived. Which it is. I mean come on, her father got smoked by a 15 year-old girl with a beretta in the start, and Jenny lived in that same area. Who would be afraid of her with knives and baseball bats if they live in a neighborhood where the street kids have "gats"?There are some cool death scenes, but as another commenter said, I think the brilliance in this movie may just be by accident.The most amazing thing about this movie is that when you see the fantastic ending, and the credits roll, you will be astonished that you didn't chew through your own wrists or saw off your leg with a pizza box, just to stop the torture.In closing, this is a broken movie. A really good plot opportunity and what was probably an very decent script get butchered and turned into some very spammish type product. Next time I'll make sure that when I rent a movie called 'Red Riding Hood', it is in fact about an Irish hooker in the Ghetto.Oh yah, for all the people that think this movies stinks, don't bother worrying about people that say you just didn't get. They are just destroying there own credibility because it is trash. And we do get it; we got it many times before, when it was done much better in so many other films it's to hard to name. It wasn't original, or artsy. If wanna see a GREAT take on Lil Red Riding Hood, and wolfs too, check out the film 'The Company of Wolves', and see what a good movie should be. Thank you, and good nite.....

I can certainly see the point of people ripping on this film. Susanna Satta doesn't set herself up for future stardom but she certainly doesn't hurt her career. The writers had something in mind here and my guess is the director screwed it up. There are some ridiculous parts to the film, but taken in the context of a twelve-year-old girl's mind, they actually make sense.Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to give too much credit to the filmmakers because a lot of the good elements of the film probably happened on accident.I didn't feel like I wasted my money renting this, but I probably would rent it with a bunch of friends over.