Think of Little Red Riding Hood on speed.That describes the high energy behind the independent film ‘Freeway,’ now playing in limited release.The Republic Pictures movie, produced by the ever-eccentric Oliver Stone, was the most intense take on a fairy tale ever made. The flick stars Reese Witherspoon, an Alicia Silverstone-type bad ass, who is fed up with her prostitute, drug-abusing mother and her sexually abusive step-father. So, she runs away, in search of her grandmother, this angelic figure who she dreams will save her from her horrid affairs.Get it? It’s the Little Red Riding Hood play of the 1990s.Enter Keifer Sutherland, a child psychologist who gets off on murdering adolescent girls and then desecrating their bodies. He meets up with Witherspoon, who ends up killing him for his sexual advances. Or so she thought. Sutherland is alive and comes back to haunt her, posing as her grandmother in bed, just like the fairy tale.Being a model of retaliation, Witherspoon beats the crap out of girls in her detention home and has a lesbian encounter with an inmate.Brooke Shields, who plays Sutherland’s flaky, Beverly Hills-like wife, also appears in the movie, although the point of having her there really escapes me.And some of the dialog scenes between Sutherland and Witherspoon in his Jeep Cherokee could have been shortened. There is much power in a few meaningful words rather than lengthy soliloquys.In respect to Stone’s name on this film, I was surprised it wasn’t more surreal, like those cool rattlesnake scenes in ‘Natural Born Killers.’For being low-budget and in limited release, the movie did what it was supposed to: sexually abused teens are mad as hell.But the movie was erotic, eclectic and especially appealed to the bizarre side of me, and everybody. This film truly gives kudos to today’s independent films, playing on the genre of great acting with lesser-known actors.