The Company of Wolves

The Company of Wolves got the right tone - dark, grim and twisted. That's how many fairy tales "sound" in their original form and not that kind of "disney-treated" sugar versions most people only know today. Neil Jordan directed two fine twisted and very original movies - the great vampire mother-daughter story of Byzantium in 2012 (Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Rile) and The Company of Wolves (1984) - besides a good working cast this one got fantastic "non-digital" colorful, detailed and richt settings. Anyway, if you like something special put this one on your plate.

Thirteen-year-old teenager Rosaleen : Sarah Petterson lives with her parents : David Warner , Tusse Silberg, on the outskirts of a forbidding forest . Meanwhile , the beautiful girl listens her grandmother : Angela Lansbury telling fairy tales and the latter fills the heroine's head with grim stories of wolves until a sticky final . As Rosaleen dreams of a medieval fantasy environment inhabited by men who turn into wolves. As the bizarre world in which the charming teen lives is full of polecats, owls , toads , snakes , hopping , prowling and slithering round the crooked houses of the woods .

A horror fairy tale , being consistently paced , freely based on Charles's Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood and crossing it with Legend of the Werewolf . Weird terror movie that's heavy on dreamy visuals , gorgeous production design by Anthon Furst , colorful cinematography by Bryan Loftus , primitive but acceptable special effects with gruesomely vivid werewolves and Freudian symbolism . Main cast and support cast are frankly excellent , giving powerful interpretations . Starring attractive Sarah Patterson as the girl who's on the verge of womanhood and discovers rare worlds , in spite of her early age she gives an enticing acting , as well as high quality performance from veteran Angela Lansbury as the sympathetic granny , along with brief interpretations from David Warner, Georgia Slowe, Graham Cowden , Brian Glover , Terence Stamp and Stephen Rea who is Jordan's regular .

It displays a sensitive and atmospheric musical score by George Fenton, adding a medieval backgrounding sounds . The motion picture was original and compellingly written -along with Angela Carter- and directed by Neil Jordan . This great filmmaker has made splendid movies, such as : Mona Lisa , High Spirits , We're no Angels , The Crying Game , The Miracle , Interview with the Vampire, in Dreams, Michael Collins , The Butcher Boy , The Good Thief , The Brave One , Byzantium , among others . Rating : Better than average . Worthwhile watching . Essential and indispensable seeing.

This is the oddest horror movie that I have seen. The whole story takes place in a young girl's dreams, which is pretty much a different telling of Red Riding Hood. It's does something really different with the classic fairy tale by making it both bizarre and creative. The movie itself has a pretty good atmosphere with the setting of the dream and the build-up towards the werewolves showing up. Speaking of the werewolves, there's not that much of it, but it does have good tension when they show up. One flaw I have with the movie is that there's a couple of scenes where the characters aren't doing that much and are doing their daily tasks throughout. The ending itself is a strangest that I have seen over how it ends and what it symbolizes of it.

Also, there's about four stories that Granny and Rosaleen tell throughout the movie. All of them have something to do with the werewolves, and they are interesting to see it. The third story is the strangest of out of them because of what happened in it. But I felt these stories cause the main plot to stop and tell a short story that has little to do with the main plot. I think it cause the characters to be knowledgeable about werewolves and what they do.

What a weird fairy tale: director Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire) seems to have had the intention of taking a Freudian approach to the story of 'Little Red Riding Hood'. The result is an almost surreal collection of stories about rather testosterone driven werewolves, who all have a little more on their minds than 'just' to kill. If you like old school practical effects and transformations, this film has 'em by the truck load (although they do seem a little dated by now). Not everything works in this strange tale; the mix of sexual symbolism, poetic beauty and gory horror moments seems a bit forced at times - but when it does work it's utterly fascinating. For fans of the weird and lovers of the pre-CGI era, this is a rare treat. 7 out of 10.

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The company of Wolves. why is it so underrated? A simple low budget sweet tale that everybody knows cleverly put together into this horror masterpiece with a few more short stories added. Special Effects are great. I love the first story the most where they cut the Werewolves head off and it turns back human. I'm probably going to upset a few people now when I rate the special effects more than In An American Werewolf In London. But the best bit if all is all the god damn German Shepherds jumping through the window at the end. Believable as Wolves Not - but still such a delicious, entertaining, humorous and gory. The Company Of Wolves is OK in my book.