Who's afraid?

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.
Red Riding Hood keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, prejudice, authority, tradition, otherness.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)E8/E9 · authority, fear
The BFG (2016)E8 · authority, fear
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · authority, prejudice
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E9/E10 · authority, prejudice
47 Ronin (2013)E8/E9/E10 · authority, prejudice
How to Train Your Dragon (2025)E8/E9/E10 · fear, prejudiceThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Mars Attacks! (1996)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, otherness
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, fear
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · rare rung · fear, otherness
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, fear
Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · rare rung · otherness, prejudiceOther films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Seventh Son (2014)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Village of the Damned (1960)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
The Wolf Man (1941)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Splash (1984)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
The Wolfman (2010)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Tokyo Ghoul (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · loose