What happens when a woman chooses rage over anti-depressants ? This is what the female protagonists of Hard Candy and The Brave One have done, becoming vigilantes in order to do justice to themselves and other women. Through a reading of the movies’ little red riding hood intertext, this article shows how the beast and the victim are sometimes one and the same, and if a girl lets herself eaten up by a wolf, it is to better turn the tables on him.