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The Company of Wolves (1984)

R 09/21/1984 Horror, Fantasy 1h 35m
63%
User
Score
6.6/10
85%
69/100

The Desire...The Fantasy...The Nightmare.

Overview

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?

Neil Jordan

Director

Angela Carter

Screenplay

Charles Perrault

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Sarah Patterson

Sarah Patterson

Rosaleen

Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

Granny

David Warner

David Warner

Father

Graham Crowden

Graham Crowden

Old Priest

Brian Glover

Brian Glover

Amorous Boy's Father

Kathryn Pogson

Kathryn Pogson

Young Bride

Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea

Young Groom

Tusse Silberg

Tusse Silberg

Mother

Micha Bergese

Micha Bergese

Hunstman

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Media

Official Trailer

Official Trailer

Mark Kermode reviews The Company of Wolves (1984) | BFI Player

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Reviews

A review by GenerationofSwine

Written on January 12, 2023

This film is pretentious.

Wizard of Oz meets a horror movie to discuss the s(REDACTED)xuality of a (REDACTED FOR ARBITRARY REASONS!!!!)aged girl. This is a pretentious art house movie and one that thinks that it is vastly more intelligent than it really is.

It wants to retell the Little Red Riding hood story in a semi-erotic way, but never actually achieves it.

But, at least it's pretty....

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written on July 24, 2023

There's a lot of "Little Red Riding Hood" to this Neil Jordan fantasy about the young "Rosaleen" (Sarah Patterson). This woman is prone to vivid dreams set many centuries earlier, where she lives happily with her parents (and without her dull as ditchwater sister) and where she is regular regaled with portentous stories by her grandmother (Angela Lansbury). It's in one such dream, and whilst walking through the woods to visit her elderly relative that she encounters a handsome and enigmatic young man who wants to bet who will reach the old woman's house first! She is intrigued, but is she prepared for the true identity of her admirer? Though the story is a bit staccato at times, but this is still a rich and vividly constructed adaptation of a story that mixes romance, fable and a soupçon ...

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