Freeway vs. Carter

• The movie Freeway from 1996 shows us that the "Little Red Riding Hood" story is still relevant even on the cusp of the 21st century. Why does this story have such significance to us? What does it mean? How is the film's version of the story different than/the same as Carter's "The Werewolf" and "The Company of Wolves" from the late 1970s? 

The movie Freeway from 1996 was my favorite movie we watched in class. It is still relevant and more modernized, even on the cusp of the 21st century because there is constantly stories about predators such as Bob Wolverton, “big bad wolf”, out in the news. Older men that pray on naive females and abduct them with their scheme-like tricks (boys too). 

Freeway is different than Carter’s versions because the wolf isn’t a legitimate animal or transforms from an animal into a human. Also, the setting in Freeway takes place mainly on a highway where Vanessa and Bob met as opposed to the setting Carter has, in the woods.

In Carter’s “The Werewolf” the granddaughter discovers she not only chops off her grandmother’s hand (when she was tricked into thinking it was a wolf in the forest preying on her) but that her grandmother was a witch. The grandmother was stoned to death. This isn’t present in Freeway, including the grandmother. Carter also incorporates the use of witches in her two stories.