(Reviewed by Slaughterhouserock) - I love these horror film versions of kid stories.  From Rumpelstiltskin to Pinnochio...they're just good fun.  This film is an odd take on the classic Little Red Riding Hood(obviously).  It's about a twelve-year-old girl named Jenny who has a friend who wears a wolf mask and helps her kill "bad" people(thieves, liars, adulterers, etc.).  I have to admit that I thought it was going to be pretty shitty because of the opening sequence.  It has Jenny doing a voice over explaning who people are and why she is where she is.  Not my idea of a good opener, but it gets better.

First we meet her dad....who gets shot in the head while being interviewed by a reporter.  Then mom who likes to run off with a new guy every now and then, grandma who's a broadway actress, and Jenny's dog George.  Here's where we get the first inkling that Jenny is quite the psycho.  She explains that George is now grown up.  "Grown up" apparently means turning from a dog into a guy wearing a wolf mask complete with Vaderesque breathing and the growl of a lion.  Already I'm liking this movie.

Jenny is currently living in Rome where her mom left her with plenty of money while she ran off with some new guy.  All is well until grandma comes over to take her back to New York.  This makes Jenny none too happy.  She constantly argues with grandma in what is some of the worst over-acting I've seen in awhile.  But let's skip that and get on to the gore.

The first victim of George and Jenny's is a woman who stole a bottle of wine.  For this they kill her and chop off her hand.  The blood and gore isn't over the top, but isn't nonexistant either.  They did a good job in keeping it at a nice medium without too much splatter which is typical of low-budget flicks.

Before I continue, I just have to point out one thing about the film that really bothered me.  The music.  It's fucking horrible.  It's 50's style, big band bullshit that doesn't belong in this film at all.  It constantly ruined the mood and kept distrating me from more important details, such as death count and gore factor.  I tell ya, it's little things like this that just irritate the hell out of me.  Anyways, back to the film...

One thing they did a good job of is the death scenes.  There's not many, but they're done well(which is usually better than alot of shittly done deaths IMO).  Jenny makes good use of a nail gun, a drill, peanut butter(grandma has a peanut allergy), and a shovel.  My favorite death is that of a homeless man who pretends to be blind.  While drinking from a bottle, George hits the bottle with a shovel causing the bottle to be shoved into the guys mouth.  He then proceeds to gouge out his eyes.  Now that's something you don't see every day.

The plot is actually pretty decent as well.  They didn't just make Jenny some psycho, they gave her depth and meaning...too bad the girl playing Jenny sucked balls which kinda ruined the job they did with her character.  Jenny falls in love with her tutor Tom who turns her down for someone more his age and keeps her grandma hostage ala Misery(think drill instead of sledgehammer) because she doesn't want her to leave her like everyone else did.  She just wants to be loved.  It almost brought a tear to my eye thinking about how neglected that poor girl was....wait, what?  Nevermind, the girl is fucking nuts, but at least they didn't make her a boring character.

There was all sorts of subtle inuendos and foreshadowing used throughout the film to indicate what exactly was going on.  A couple of the things include her reading Don Quixote(crazy man who deludes himself into thinking he's living in his own reality) and the use of red boots and gloves.  I don't wanna go into too much detail, but you should be able to figure out what's really going on if you just pay a little attention.

Then there's the end.  Man, you know something wrong when I start a paragraph with that.  Oh yeah, here there be *SPOILERS*, so skip to the next paragraph if you don't wanna know what I'm about to say.  After Tom saves the day(how many of you honestly didn't see that coming?), it jumps ahead to six months later.  Here we have Jenny, back in NY and in a hospital/mental institution, sending grandma an email explaining how she's getting better.  Then she goes outside to kill some guy who's tap dancing, but George beats her to it, cutting off his legs.  She goes back inside and finds George's outfit, but not George.  Instead, she finds her dead dad.  They proceed to sing Que Sera Sera as the screen fades to black.  Just what the fuck was that!?  I had assumed that her good friend George was supposed to be her mind's image of her father, but I did not see that coming.  Fucking weird, just fucking weird.

Well, I have to say I enjoyed the film.  Even the ending, which I find extremely odd, was quite entertaining.  There are a few points where it seemed to drag, but they did a good job of throwing something good in right afterwards.  I gave it a 3 outta 5.  Worth renting, maybe even buying.  Definitely worth it if you like weird shit.