Company of Wolves, The (Ulvenes Nat) (1984)
Genre Fantasy, Horror
Movie Release Date 1984
Country UK
Language English
Audience Rating R
Running Time 95 mins
Format DVD
Color Color
IMDb Rating 6.5
Cast
Sarah Patterson Rosaleen
Angela Lansbury Granny
David Warner Father
Tusse Silberg Mother
Micha Bergese Huntsman
Brian Glover Amorous Boy's father
Graham Crowden Old Priest
Kathryn Pogson Young Bride
Stephen Rea Young Groom
Georgia Slowe Alice, Girl Killed by Wolves
Crew
Director Neil Jordan
Writer Angela Carter
Writer Neil Jordan
Producer Chris Brown
Producer Nik Powell
Plot
A bag full of symbolic folklore about werewolves, or, rather, their sexual connotation. Granny tells her granddaughter Rosaleen strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers with a smoldering look in their eyes; about sudden disappearances of spouses when the moon is round & the wolves are howling in the woods; about babies found inside stork eggs, in a stork nest high up a tree; etc., etc. Of course the story of Little Red Ridinghood is also present, with a very handsome he-wolf! (And of course this he-wolf consumes Grandmother, but 'consumes' Little Red Ridinghood). All the stories are somehow reducible to loss of innocence, and fear of/hunger for (a newly acquired sense of) sexuality; their Freudian character is mirrored in their dreamlike shapes. This movie is not really a horror movie; it's more a multiple tale about growing up into adolescence.
Personal Details
Rating
Collection Status In Collection
Links IMDB
Edition Details
Format DVD
Region Region 2
Release Country Denmark
TV System PAL
No. of Disks/Tapes 1
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.77:1 (16:9) (Anamorphic)
Subtitles Danish; Finnish; Norwegian; Swedish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
Layers Single Side, Single Layer