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Red Riding Blood

Genre: Horror

Director: Dan Trachtenberg

Writer: Andrew Doster

Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Emile Hirsch, Violet McGraw, Dylan Arnold, Stefanie Scott, Patricia Clarkson

Plot: The young couple had been walking for hours inside the bush, after they had left the path to photograph a fawn that had cut them off. The boy, Robert (Dylan Arnold) tries to reassure his girlfriend Olivia (Stefanie Scott) who begins to be visibly frightened by the situation. Suddenly they hear a little voice saying that she knows the right path and that she would have accompanied them. Moreover, his house is not far away. Robert says to be seen and a little girl (Violet McGraw) comes out from behind a tree. Her long curly and blond hair was semi-hidden by the red hood whose cape, also vermilion, almost touched the ground. The face was partially hidden by the scarlet fabric, but you could see the pale complexion of the frugola. From the shadow generated by the hood, two large blue and cold eyes like ice peeked out. The girl approaches Olivia and gives her her hand and they begin to follow the child while the camera shows how the three go into the thick bush. The next scene sees Olivia stained with blood on her face and on the clothes she is panting and stops to catch her breath while looking around as if a person or an animal could appear and attack her. In his eyes you could feel all the terror he felt. He takes the phone from his trouser pocket and begins to curse it because there is no signal. The sudden croak of a crow made her jump and Before he could resume his journey, he heard a chant "Ring a-ring o 'roses , a pocketful of posies. Ashes to ashes. We all fall down. ". A sharp and childish laugh gave her goose bumps. At that laugh, Olivia started running again until she stumbled over some roots that jutted out of the ground. Finally we see the little girl approaching and tells her that it is not necessary to run away and something drags Olivia until she is on the ground in the thick bush.

Then we see a car, a 1976 Impala in which there are Arthur (Emile Hirsch) and Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), they are going to an important photo shoot that could improve their career as photographers. While they listen to the radio they hear the news of the disappearance of two young people while they were going to the grandmother of one of the two. After driving many hours they stop at a motel in Cannock Wood. After settling into the room, Michelle reads a newspaper while Arthur takes a shower. Among the various news there is also that of the death in prison of Raymond Morris, imprisoned some forty years earlier for the murder of some children despite he had always professed to be innocent. There is also the news of the couple who had listened for radio in the afternoon. When Arthur came out of the shower Michelle with sweet words and mischievous eyes convinced him to investigate the missing couple.The two discover from the lady Walderson (Patricia Clarkson), the owner of the motel, that the forest of Cannock Chase has become a place of pilgrimage for lovers of the paranormal. In fact, it seems that an animal similar to a dog or a wolf has been warned among the trees, with dark fur and tonnage outside the norm. sighting. Darkness was almost falling when they arrived at Cannock Chase, the "cursed forest". While the two photographers go into the forest Michelle lights a cigarette while the boy hears a rustling not far from them and says he thought he saw something red in the vegetation. Arthur begins to run towards that direction, stopping after a few minutes. Shortly afterwards Michelle joined him and severely scolded him. A chant filled the night air of Cannock Chase. As if to make an order of the song, a tree started to slant sideways. If he had not approached his companion, Michelle would have been crushed by the plant. An amused laugh replaced the tone of just before before everything was silent. The two began to walk and after a while they returned to the starting point (where the tree had risked crushing Michelle).After a while they started walking again, they noticed something disturbing, the hands of their watches are going backwards and coming back to the starting point. Arthur says that he almost feels like being in a movie, the situation is really strange and that the same thing happened in a film of the late 90's (The Blair Witch Project). Charlotte has an idea, that of breaking pieces of bark from trees to try to find the way and they started walking again. After walking for a while they found themselves at the starting point. Charlotte, angrily, says it's an impossible thing because they always went straight. The two decide to sit near the fallen tree for a few minutes to regain their strength first to leave again. The torch that illuminated their path, held by Arthur, showed that the undergrowth grew thicker as they progressed, although when they left the path the bush was very scarce and remained constant. Charlotte lit a cigarette, which was now running out, but she didn't have time to look up that slammed again against her partner who had stopped suddenly. Arthur tells the girl to look ahead because to a big branch of a tree had been tied a rope that went down tense in the direction of the ground and to whose other head was found, dangling, the lifeless body of a boy. But Charlotte tried to reassure Arthur, she saw nothing at that point. Suddenly the corpse, which looked like Robbie's (which saw only Arthur), moved its head and opened its mouth whose teeth seemed to have been rotten for a long time and from which came a huge swarm of flies that headed towards the only one that could to see them, thus forcing him to run away from that place, driving out something that was not really there. Charlotte tried to follow his friend but immediately fell ruinously to the ground and realizes that her ankle had been grasped by a female hand. She felt her hand pull her to her, as if she wanted to drag her underground into the world of the dead, Charlotte also saw a face of a young woman with red hair coming out of the ground, as if she wanted to see her victim. She tried to free herself by kicking her free hand, but without success. Suddenly a chant, which grew louder and closer and seemed to be sung by a child, made the ghost that had grabbed her disappear. At that point Charlotte, still on the ground, found herself in front of a little girl who kindly asked her if she was lost.Then he turned towards his interlocutor and a shiver ran down his back when he saw that the girl had completely black eyes, with no iris or sclera, and that they didn't seem to reflect the little moonlight that filtered through the leaves.She blinked a few times and noticed that her eyes were normal, with the white sclera and blue irises, although her complexion continued to appear pale. After looking at the baby in the face, Charlotte seems a little confused (it seems almost half-hypnotized). The child tells the woman to follow her because she can accompany her out of that situation. The woman observed her guide all the way, as if she wanted to keep an eye on her because she didn't trust him and after a while she said jokingly "We've been walking for quite a while, it's not like you're taking me to the middle of the forest to eat me ? The little girl says no and they arrive at a clearing with a moonlit house in the center.Then he turned towards his interlocutor and a shiver ran down his back when he saw that the girl had completely black eyes, with no iris or sclera, and that they didn't seem to reflect the little moonlight that filtered through the leaves.

She blinked a few times and noticed that her eyes were normal, with the white sclera and blue irises, although her complexion continued to appear pale. After looking at the baby in the face, Charlotte seems a little confused (it seems almost half-hypnotized). The child tells the woman to follow her because she can accompany her out of that situation. The woman observed her guide all the way, as if she wanted to keep an eye on her because she didn't trust him and after a while she said jokingly "We've been walking for quite a while, it's not like you're taking me to the middle of the forest to eat me "The little girl says no and they come to a clearing with a moonlit house in the middle. The little girl enters the house. Charlotte coughed a couple of times this was the amount of dust in the air, then bringing a hand in front of his mouth he then heard a rhythmic creak from what must have been the living room and walked towards it.

In the room from which the noise came he saw a rocking chair that noisily paced back and forth. He approached the moving furniture and saw a human figure sitting on it. Charlotte approaches but before she started talking she noticed that the person she was talking to was actually little more than bones covered with dry skin. From the woman's mouth, a couple of small spiders came out in a hurry, as if disturbed by the they sleep in that unusual lair. After a curse, Charlotte seems to have come out of a state of stupidity and seems to understand the gravity of the situation in which she found herself. Charlotte turns to the child and hears a howl. The little girl giggles and begins to clap in a sense of joy while her eyes go back to being black without iris. Charlotte goes to the entrance giving a shoulder to the little girl who falls to the ground laughing amused.Charlotte opens the door and instead of the clearing surrounded by the woods, Blaze finds herself in another room in the house. The little girl with a satisfied air says that once you enter this house, you can't go out until the soul is devoured and she almost announced her satisfaction. "He is hungry," he concluded, licking his lips. The girl approaches Charlotte and says that Charlotte would stay and play with them forever. Charlotte backed away without taking her eyes off her small guest, who followed him as she retreated. With her back she hit a table, turned and saw that there was a candelabra on the floor, close at hand. She grabbed him and, as soon as the child with the black eyes and the blond curls was close enough, kicked her to the ground and started to hit her head with the improvised weapon she had taken. A trickle of blood began to flow from the wound he had opened on her temple, forming a small red pool under her head. She went to the window and looked first at the glass, then at the candlestick, then at the glass again and broke the window pane. After opening a gap , passed through it and, with the Moon illuminating the road, started to run towards the wood. Reached the edge of the clearing, he went into the vegetation without ceasing to run and in his flight he almost clashed with Arthur. The two hug and Charlotte begins to tell what happened until the man says "I'm still here, he's hungry, your friend's soul wasn't enough". The voice, however, was that of the child and Charlotte recoils in fear. Behind Arthur appeared the red hooded child, who stood to stare at her as if nothing had happened, the wound in her temple and the blood had disappeared. The girl understands that Arthur was not his friend but a kind of dummy or a hallucination or something. Meanwhile a series of howls can be heard from the surrounding trees while Charlotte no longer knows what to do. Suddenly a hairy being leaps from the woods at Charlotte trying to defend herself and the screen goes black.

Then you see a newspaper article in which there is written of the disappearance of two young photographers, Charlotte Clark and Arthur Evans, in Cannock Chase. At the end of the article the newspaper closes by showing Lady Wanderson that with a satisfied and smiling air welcomes a large group of boys equipped with cameras and other accessories.