Film Review: The Company of Wolves (1984)
The Company of Wolves is about all the things we scare our children with to prepare them for adulthood.
United Kingdom
Director: Neil Jordan
Writer: Angela Carter
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To create the The Company of Wolves, Angela Carter teamed up with another writer: The film was director and novelist Neil Jordan‘s second feature. The result is a sumptuous, creepy story that arouses as much as it scares. It gives us back something of that innocence of youth while exciting our other senses as we are put in the shoes of Rosaleen, our Little Red Riding Hood.
Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) is seen sleeping in a large house that could easily be in our world. She has a mother (Tusse Silberg) and a father (David Warner), just arriving home, and an older sister (Georgia Slowe) who does not speak to her very kindly. After pushing their large German Shepard away from whining at her sister’s door, she yells at her through the closed door. The girl, slumbering in what has to be one of the creepiest 80s bedrooms on film, begins to dream. Naturally, the first event of her dream is the death of her sister by wolves.
Through out the movie, her grandmother (Angela Lansbury) tells her terrifying stories about the nature of wolves, but also the…
