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Liza Minnelli starred in the 1965 TV film The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood with Cyril Ritchard as the Wolf and Vic Damone as the huntsman. This revisionist fairy tale is told from the Wolf's point of view.

Filmmaker Neil Jordan's horror fiction/fantasy fiction The Company of Wolves, based on the short story by Angela Carter, told an interweaving series of folkloric tales loosely based on Red Riding Hood that fully exploited its subtexts of lycanthropy, violence and sexual awakening.

Freeway, a feature film adaptation, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Reese Witherspoon adapts it into a modern setting in which the major characters become a psychotic but charming serial killer and a sexually abused teenaged girl.

In the 1987 Japanese live-action movie The Red Spectacles (aka Akai Megane), the featured "young lady" (as mentioned in the French and German versions of the tale), an allegory for Fate, is dressed like the Little Red Riding Hood. A anime version of this character appeared later in the film's sequel, Jin-Roh.

Christina Ricci starred in a 1997 short film based on the subject matter. See Little Red Riding Hood.

The 2004 Kevin Bacon film The Woodsman took its title from the woodsman of the fable. In a speech given by Mos Def's policeman character, he compared pedophiles to the wolf and observed that there seems to be no "woodsman" to save victimized children.

Red Riding Hood was adapted into a musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and test released first in 2004. The experimental computer virtual reality features were then enhanced for over an additional year. The film stars Morgan Thompson as "Red". Also, Henry Cavill, Andrea Bowen, and performers well known on Broadway.

In the 2005 film, The Brothers Grimm, one minor character was a young girl who was clearly designed to resemble the classic Red Riding Hood figure, even paraphrasing some of her most famous lines when talking to a (predatory) horse she discovers in the woods ("What big eyes you have, what big ears you have, and such a pretty, pretty mouth.").

Singapore cult director Tzang Merwyn Tong directed a 45 minute short film in 2005 titled A Wicked Tale. Tzang's postmodern re-imagination of the fable is presented in a chilling style that combines the silent-era revivalism of Guy Maddin with the shock/sadistic horror of Audition-era Takashi Miike.