The Red Riding Hoods

Freddy. Jason. Michael Myers. Leatherface…

…The names evoke terror. Their sprees claimed countless victims. Yet each of them was eventually stopped by a Final Girl – the tough, sweet, resourceful heroine who always manages to emerge as the ultimate survivor.
Or at least, that’s the way it works in the movies. Freddy and the rest of them aren’t real, after all – they’re just slasher-film grotesques. Everyone knows that.

But what everyone doesn’t know – yet – is that those slasher-films are less fictional than we’d like to suppose. Myths have to start somewhere, after all. Freddy and Jason may be Hollywood inventions, but they were inspired by real-world maniacs. Some of those real-world monster tales have been directly adapted into slasher-film scenarios. In fact, dark rumor has it that a certain real-life monster played himself in one film by a seminal grindhouse director named JAMES AMBROSE.

In short: some of the most lurid slasher-films have been virtual documentaries. Those monsters and maniacs exist. And each one of them has been stopped – so far – by a Final Girl. The latest in a long line of resourceful heroines, tracing back to history’s first Final Girl: Little Red Riding Hood herself.

The real Red Riding Hood was not quite the waif who appears in the beloved fairy tale. (And the original Wolf was in truth no wolf at all – at least, not the four-legged kind.) But that’s where the saga began…

And now it continues, with an elite team of Final Girls, each of them the sole survivor of a horror-film-worthy spree. They’ve banded together in a secret sisterhood – based at a seemingly idyllic liberal arts college, and guided by a mysterious mentor figure known to them only as MOTHER – to continue the quest of the original Red Riding Hood. That means battling maniacs, monsters, and malevolent otherworld entities. It means grappling with an apocalyptic conspiracy that originated 200 years ago, and is propagated in the modern world by the shadowy and terrifying Order of The Wolf. And that’s not even counting the homework load and the stress of mid-term exams…

Imagine Supernatural crossed with Stranger Things, supercharged with the joyful quirkiness of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Red Riding Hoods is a one-hour, live-action series about coming together, kicking butt, and the enduring power of sisterhood.