"Fairy Tales Are the Stories We Tell Our Children to Warn Them...": Writer/Director Kelsey Taylor on Her Suspenseful Debut Feature, To Kill a Wolf

For viewers watching Kelsey Taylor’s terrific debut feature, To Kill a Wolf, it’s easy to miss that its very loose source material is the 17th-century children’s fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood. Yes, there’s a girl lost in the woods, a woodsman, a grandma (arguably), and a wolf, although the latter is hardly an obvious figure. But the relationships between these characters and their backstories are newly invented, mapping onto contemporary anxieties and fears as much an archetypal nar...