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The Company of Wolves
*Blood* *Not Particularly Violent* *No Strong Language* *No Nudity* *No Sexual Situations*
1984/Color/95 Min./Vestron Video & ITC Entertainment Palace/Rated R
Director...........Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, We're no Angels)
Screenplay.....Angela Carter & Neil Jordan
Music..............George Fenton
Producer.........Chris Brown & Stephen Wooley
Executive Producer.....
Special Effects Makeup by Christopher Tucker
Adapted from her own Story by Angela Carter
Dramatis Personae
Granny..............Angela Lansbury (Murder She Wrote, Gaslight,Sweeney Todd)
Old priest..........Graham Crowden (Brittannia Hospital)
Boy's father.......Brian Glover (An American Werewolf in London, Alien 3)
Young bride......Kathryn Pogson (Overindulgence)
Young groom....Stephen Rea (The Crying Game, The Doctor and the Devils)
Mother..............Tusse Silberg
Father...............David Warner*
The Huntsman..Micha Bergese
Rosaleen..........Sarah Patterson
Amorous Boy....Shane Johnstone
Critique: OK so its a Freudian fantasy fairy tale based on little red riding hood and not really a horror movie. Are we to be delighted just because of the director's reputation, his preoccupation with Freud and his European pedigree? This is an allegory about the fears of a young girl approaching sexual maturity and indeed a broader encoding of reality into Freudian terminology as opposed to decoding of process of psychoanalysis. The wolf as the beast of prey may be male, but the power of the beast is as least latent in females also coming through in the power to manipulate or only in dreams. Decent transformation from man to werewolf
The father of the boy is played by the narrow minded scared man in the tavern scene in "An American Werewolf in London".
The younger sister harassed by the older sister is prone to nightmares (pretty creepy set decoration) where she is chased through a bizarre landscape by wolves. The grandmother warns the younger daughter of the danger of wolves who are hairy on the inside and tells a tale of a woman who marries a traveling man whose eyebrows are grown together and who is a werewolf. If you are a pseudo-intellectual, add two skulls.
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