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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0759731408325
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Henstooth Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Henstooth Video
MPN: HEND4083D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Henstooth Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Henstooth Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 19, 1985
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The story unfolds as young rosaleen lies dreaming in her bed. A violent nightmare transports her back in time to a world of primeval forests & werewolves. She learns her only sister has been killed by a wolf. Her granny weaves vivid tales of folklore & fantasy with warnings of beasts that lurk within men. Studio: Henstooth Video Release Date: 10/15/2002 Starring: Sarah Patterson Angela Lansbury Run time: 92 minutes Rating: R Director: Neil Jordan
Amazon.com essential video:
The tangled forest is misty with mystery, the thatched cottages are cute and quaint, and the dashing rogues are devious charmers, but this revision of "Little Red Riding Hood" is not your usual fairy tale. In the troubled dreams of an adolescent girl in the hormonal rush of puberty, it becomes a veritable werewolf story with lush storybook imagery, gothic horror flourishes, and decidedly sexual implications. Director Neil Jordan, who collaborated with author Angela Carter in this 1985 adaptation of her story, applies a knowing intelligence to the bittersweet tale. The often startling transformation effects may appear primitive compared to modern movies, but the delight is in the dark imagination, dense textures, and fantastical wonders of this dream world. Angela Lansbury is the story-spinning granny and David Warner the understanding woodsman father, and watch for a devilish cameo by a sinister and seductive Terence Stamp. --Sean Axmaker
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Neil Jordan's little-known werewolf film mixes several Grimm fairy tales (mainly "Ltttle Riding Hood" and "The Little Boy Who Cried Wolf") with a disturbing Freudian coming of age sexuality. Sarah Patterson is the hormonally driven lead facing puberty and predatory men. A dangerous mix. Angela Lansbury is startling as the story-telling grandmother. David Warner is the sympathetic woodsman dad. Weird, wonderful and genuinely horrifying.
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In his book about WEREWOLVES (review below), author Bob Curran makes favorable mention of this film--and with good reason. In a way THE COMPANY OF WOLVES reminds me of the 1940's B&W classic CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE. Following the success of CAT PEOPLE, European born producer Val Lewton was pressured by his Hollywood counterparts into making a sequel to that film. This was the age of the mega-monsters & sequels were the rage (Son of Frankenstein, etc.) Lewton caved in--and the resulting movie is now ... Read More
Rating: -
Movie goers these days may be coming to their senses, suffering month after month the same cookie cutter plots, characters, CGI, *s*t*a*r*s* appearing over and over like a familiar pickpocket or scam artist at the intersection. I don't want to mention any names but one in particular moves like concrete through the recent Terminator clone. Really, how many more scenes of robot feet crushing human skulls can one sit through?
Producers take no risks these days and certainly would never ... Read More
Rating:  -
This movie is more fantasy, and artsy dark fantasy at that, than a typical horror movie, which is something I like.
However I can't comment on the movie itself too much, because I really just couldn't get passed the serious audio problems.
The voices are quiet and have a rather muffled sound the majority of the time, and as a result I can understand very little of what was is said. The music some times is also way too loud.
Thanks to the quiet muffled voices and loud music ... Read More
Rating:  -
Ok this is a great movie, the narrative implications are those of a coming of age and a young womans personal stages of sexual awareness. It begins at the funeral of the sister of a young woman and her journey to sexual maturity and the conflict is created by repeated use of Werewolves...sound strange, it is. This is a cautionary tale told to the young woman in allegory by her Grandma (while she is dreaming)the bottom line ...men are wolves...? your guess is as good as mine. It is a fairy tale and not true ... Read More
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