1984 Directed by Neil Jordan
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?
Sarah Patterson Angela Lansbury David Warner Graham Crowden Brian Glover Kathryn Pogson Stephen Rea Tusse Silberg Micha Bergese Georgia Slowe Susan Porrett Shane Johnstone Dawn Archibald Richard Morant Danielle Dax Vincent McClaren Ruby Buchanan Jimmy Gardner Roy Evans Edward Marksen Jim Brown Jim Carter Terence Stamp
En compañía de lobos, Zeit der Wölfe, 与狼为伴, Horror of the Jungle, Времето на вълците, En companyia de llops, Společenství vlků, Ulvenes nat, Die Zeit der Wölfe, Lobos, criaturas del diablo, La Compagnie des loups, חבורת הזאבים, Farkasok társasága, In compagnia dei lupi, 狼の血族, მგლების კომპანია, 늑대의 혈족, Towarzystwo wilków, A Companhia dos Lobos, В компании волков, Vargarnas natt, Kurtlar Sofrası, В компанії вовків, 狼之一族
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I like movies where there are a lot of dogs running around and they're supposed to be all menacing and fierce but you can tell they're all good boys having a fun day on the big misty woods set.
This is one beautiful and incredibly surreal movie. It’s an anthology of sorts, but maybe the least traditional anthology format I can think of. There is an opening bookend story and then a closing bookend story that is different yet also tied to the opening and it all kind of blurs together with no specific beginning and an ambiguous ending which makes this movie one of the greatest cinematic interpretations of a dream that I’ve ever seen.
The stories sort of weave in and out of each other as well as the in and out of the present and the past, mixing dark tales of werewolves with a wonderfully nightmarish version of Little Red Riding Hood. At times it seems…
Spooktober II: To Hell With the 80s
Among the tales that lend themselves well to reinvention is Little Red Riding Hood. Whether faithfully adapted or reconstructed, the idea of a young girl defeating a predator as dangerous as a wolf is not only inspiring, but unfortunately a reality many women face today.
In a rather interesting and imaginative manner, Neil Jordan manages to bring this old story into the modern day, a feat he would achieve with greater success in Interview With A Vampire. The director does a good job adapting Angela Carter's script and her vision of the world through this literary classic, and together with his cinematographer and production designer he manages to transport us into this fantastical…
definitely one of the best retellings of red riding hood that i have ever seen. watching this felt like a beautifully dark and atmospheric dream. i mean, that cinematography is stunning! sarah patterson is superb, and those practical effects were cool as hell too. the very first werewolf transformation we get to see probably would've given me nightmares if i had seen it as a kid. i could see myself coming back to this in about ten years.
A wonderfully twisted and surreal version of Little Red Riding Hood directed by Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire). It's got some spectacular visuals and weird character interactions. The special effects were cheaply made but immensely creative, and I was glad to see that werewolf transformation depicted on the artwork is actually in the movie.
I had a great time watching The Company of Wolves with Michelle.
"The Company of Wolves" is a stylistic re-telling of the classic folktale "Red Riding Hood." Neil Jordan's sophomore effort takes a more abstract, surrealist approach to the material, even at times taking it into Freudian territory.
The film focuses on a young girl named Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) who's experiencing uncanny, lucid dreams centred around a pack of wolves. The dreams even include the death of her sister at the hands/claws of the wolves. As Rosaleen begins to enter the early stages of womanhood, she spends more time with her Granny (Angela Lansbury) who tells her stories that'll hold valuable lessons, in-particular she is told to be wary of men whose eyebrows meet as they're likely to be hiding secrets.
The…
"The Company of Wolves" is a 1984 gothic horror film directed by directed by Neil Jordan. As one of Jordan's most recognizable pieces is "Interview with the Vampire" (1994), most audiences who have seen that presentation with recognize Jordan's aptitude of connecting a delicate connection of elegance intermixed with gothic horror to give an excellent and unique production. While "The Company of Wolves" is "Interview's" elder by ten years, you can clearly see the same distinctive use of style for a completely enthralling production that drives forward full emersion. Being less focused on an aristocratic build like "Interview with the Vampire", "The Company of Wolves" is a fantastical journey into the ethos of a Grim's Fairy Tale. It is obvious…
A fantasy horror anthology that explores Rosaleen’s sexual awakening and the machinations of those wolves that would seek to exploit her innocence.
There’s a lot of plot in here with two framing segments and four individual stories, but not unlike the folkloric tales you would have read as a kid, the multiple storylines within The Company of Wolves are perhaps not as important as the symbolic messages contained within each of these stories. These narrative threads are continually overshadowed by a forest full of eerie, gloomy imagery and unsettling set pieces, like Terrence Stamp dealing lupine drugs out of his flashy car in the fog-choked woods, the seemingly endless pack of moon-eyed wolves that crash through Rosaleen's bedroom window and…
great if you love cute puppies, ingeniously twisted practical effects, and horny fairy tales
"Once the bloom is gone oh the beast comes out" -Granny,
Werewolves and sex... discuss.
Really cool practical effects, especially in the wolf transitions but really everywhere. The music is eerie, the tone is dramatic, the film feels surreal. The Company of Wolves is a unique movie providing a series of loosely connected stories about werewolves and sexual blossoming that make you feel like you are being transported to hundreds of years ago. The acting is great, as is the direction.
Yep, it's nice and weird... just like I like em.
Fantasy setting, extravagant transformation scenes, bright colors draped in shadow, and fairytale atmosphere combine to make this heavy-handed sexual metaphor much more interesting. The metaphor is very upfront--coming of age mixed with sexual predation--but still gets mixed in a way only possible under patriarchy. Part of this is because the stories told are used to show shifting perspectives between characters and stages of their development, but partly it's the filmmaker's problem. The final moments of the film could be taken a few ways; the fear of wolves and the acceptance of them could be seen as an acceptance of sexual violence or as an embrace of sexuality, and that (especially being tied so heavily to coming of age) seems off. Still, despite the muddled message, it's a gorgeous dark film.
October count: 8/31
