The read
Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do. Most of the 3,185 2010s thriller movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.
Ratings
IMDb5.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes10%
Metacritic29/100
Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do.
3,355 audience votes
Key crew
- Catherine HardwickeDirector
- David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrickWriter
- Brian ReitzellOriginal Music Composer
- Alex HeffesOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Amanda SeyfriedValerie
- Gary OldmanFather Soloman
- Billy BurkeCesaire
- Shiloh FernandezPeter
- Max IronsHenry Lazar
- Julie ChristieValerie's Grandmother
- Lukas HaasFather August
- Virginia MadsenSuzette
- Shauna KainRoxanne
- Michael HoganThe Reeve
- Adrian HolmesCaptain
- Cole HeppellClaude
Stills
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Themes
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