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# The Company of Wolves (Special Edition) [DVD] [1984]

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A Dreamlike Little Red Riding Hood
  

*by Z***L on Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2018*

You can feel this dream within a dream within a dream was created by intensely imaginative people. To be honest, if it wasn't for the ending, I would've probably rated this a 3...but I admire the boldness the film follows its aesthetic. The way it chases Rosaleen down a dreamscape of theater props, ghostly lighting, and hungry wolves.Quite bizarrely, if you liked the recent horror movie The VVitch, you might actually like this too. It's a whole lot cheesier, but they share a feminist-tinged heart. The film recasts werewolves as a force of nature where women can find destruction and empowerment. As a werewolf says:"I don't come from Hell -- I come from the forest."Admittedly, it's a little heavy handed with all that sometimes, but there is such a sleepy, relaxed feel to the whole enterprise. It's as though the characters couldn't be bothered with you anymore than the people in your own dreams. They bob and weave between stories and realities (and heck, chronologies. A car shows up out of nowhere), everything feeling part of some fairy-tale....except those bright, very real wolf eyes.The big flaw of this movie though is it's hamstrung by its budget. Just a little more on some of the effects could've made a big difference (the first werewolf transformation is silly, and I'm not sure if that's intentional). The actors are for the most part serviceable, but some of the supporting cast are...ok, let's be honest, atrocious. And the much more talented actors like Angela Lansbury or David Warner are given so little to work with. But thankfully, Sarah Patterson is perfect as Rosaleen -- calm, intelligent, and not entirely uninterested in wolves.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Strange, surreal...and haunting. 3.5/5
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2020*

"They say the Prince of Darkness is a gentleman, and as it happens, they are right."THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is one of the strangest films I have ever seen. I have seen it listed as horror, gothic horror, and fantasy, but it is really a fairy tale, or rather a series of fairy tales, woven together into a curious sort of anthology, and a very beautiful one at that. Very loosely described, it is the story of Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson), a contemporary teenage girl on the cusp of womanhood, whose fears and desires play out in a series of dreams in which wolves and werewolves figure prominently. The wolves initially seem to represent threat and danger, including the danger to the beautiful Rosaleen presented by predatious men; then her own burgeoning physical desires, which alarm and confuse and titilate her; then, they take on more subtle and complex themes involving alienation, loneliness and the idea of being "in, but not of" -- the werewolf, we are reminded, walks in both the human and animal worlds, but belongs entirely to neither. Of course, some of the dream-stories don't seem to make much sense at all, but COMPANY is that kind of a movie. Some of it is intentionally obvious, and some of it is intentionally subtle, nebulous or open to interpretation. Symbology is everywhere, and I'm pretty sure Angela Carter, who co-wrote the script with director Neil Jordan as an adaptation of her own published work, didn't care if you understood all of it or not. In that sense, it is utterly dreamlike, which works for and against it depending upon your taste.COMPANY has a double conceit. As Rosaleen dreams, she enters a fairy-tale world in which she lives in a stylized English village from days of yore, lying deep within an enchanted forest. Those who live in the village consider themselves safe so long as they "stay on the path," while those who "stray from the path" will either get lost or devoured by the wolves which lurk in the forest. Her Father (David Warner) is hunting the wolves; meanwhile, a frisky neighbor's kid, the Amarous Boy (Shane Johnstone), is trying his luck with Rosaleen, who is both deeply attracted to, and badly frightened by, the idea of sex and intimacy. At the same time, she is told tales by her assertive, lecture-prone Granny (Angela Lansbury), who warns her about "wolves who are hairy on the inside,"and tells tales to her own Mother (Tusse Silberg) and to a Huntsman (Micha Bergese) she encounters on the path. As Rosaleen is clad in a red riding hood and always going to Grandmother's house, you can be pretty sure she will encounter a Big Bad, too, though the outcome of her meeting may surprise you.As I said above, the tales and plot points of the movie each contain warnings, morals, fantasies, fears and so on, many of which pertain to burgeoning sexuality and the confusion, curiosity, excitement, repulsion and danger it brings. As I stated above, some are easier to decipher than others. Among the more subtle are one, which features an uncredited Terrence Stamp as the Devil, and seems to be about the perils of growing up too fast. Another, about a "Traveling Man" who deserts his bride on their wedding night ("Answering the call of nature") and then returns years later and turns into a werewolf, seems to be about male hypocrisy vis-a-vis sexual fealty. Others, like Rosaleen's encounters with the Amorous Boy and the Huntsman, or the one about the poor pregnant girl who comes back to take vengeance on the snobbish lover who spurned her, are petty blatant in tone.Although there is plenty of acting power in this movie, the performances are mostly restrained, and the real star is the production design. Anton Furst creates a haunting, beautiful, stylized, curiously functional village that belongs to every era from the Middle Ages to the Age of Reason simultaneously, and produces a brooding primeval forest full of hulking trees, Alice in Wonderland-style toadstools, and anachronistic animals (frogs and pythons -- in winter, no less). In one memorable sequence, he also produces a nightmare scape of life-sized dolls through which Rosaleen's bitchy sister is hunted and terrorized. Although the images are dreamlike, every structure, every stone, every tool and piece of clothing looks absolutely real and not like props and set dressing at all. It's little wonder Furst was later hired by Stanley Kubrick for FULL METAL JACKET based on his work on this film alone, and it makes me sad, watching it, too see how real film and practical effects can evoke an atmosphere that digital cameras and CGI simply cannot touch.COMPANY is not a riveting film. It is slow, and in some places boring. Not every one of the tales works narratively speaking. There are small scenes which don't seem to have any point, as if they slipped past the editor, and the surreality and dream-like quality of everything, combined with the stories-within-stories-within-a-story format, make the film as confusing, at points, as a real dream. However, though it is not riveting, it is compelling, and not just visually. There are scenes in the film that are haunting, and there is wisdom in the stories, as well as a female perspective on the idea of nascent sexuality and the attractions and dangers that men present. The mantra of Granny to Rosaleen is "stay on the path," but that is not the spiritual message of the film, and while men are presented in many ways as menacing, deceptive and dangerous, the Huntsman's reply to Granny -- "I am not from hell, I am from the forest!" pretty much sums up Angela Carter's outlook on the XY chromosome set. We fellas may be beasts, but we ain't all bad.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Wonderful movie, wish the US would get a better release.
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017*

Film Review:  If you're a fan of dark fairytales, then this is a movie that you should absolutely look up.  This is the textbook example of how one of these films is done correctly.  It's very surreal and dreamlike, and they have a LOT of fun with the visuals.  And if you're a fan of 80's special effects (especially gore effects on par with The Thing and An American Werewolf in London) then you'll especially love this!Product Review:  This is the first time I've bought a physical copy of the film, but I've looked up the different versions that one can get before I made my decision.  If you're a fan of buying physical copies of movies for the sake of all the special features, and you also live in the US like me, you're gonna be SOL when it comes to this movie.  In the first DVD release the only special features were apparently a trailer and a still image gallery.  The bluray here loses both of those but gains a commentary track with the director of the film, which is the very reason why I bought it.  Compare that to the steelbook box with behind the scenes footage, interviews and commentary that Europe got, it really feels like we missed out in the US.The bluray box is a little thick compared to my other boxes, which honestly made me a little nervous that I accidentally bought a movie that I can't play.  It IS region B, but I can get it to play on my computer tower just fine (I play the majority of my movies on my computer rather than my playstation 4).  The picture quality is about as clear as possible, the reds and blues really pop.  My only REAL issue with the physical product itself is that the box has no text on the spine.  It's just straight black.  All I can say is "really?", because now there's nothing to tell it apart on my movie shelf aside from the box thickness and the blank black space.  Feel free to take that as a nitpick, but it's one of the most obvious things.

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