Long before Inception broke people's brains with its nesting of recursive realities, an odd little twisting of the Little Red Riding Hood fable did very much the same thing. This fairy tale works its magic by telling its story as a dream within a dream within a dream.
The Company of Wolves was director Neil Jordan's 1984 fantasy examination of the taboos around sexuality and the coming of age, cleverly woven around the Red Riding Hood fairy tale of a young girl, a missing granny and a voracious wolf. The film features the legendary Angela Lansbury as the mono-brow admonishing grandmother, warning her granddaughter to "Never trust a man who's eyebrows meet in the middle".
The film is notable for some fairly advanced special effects for the time, with some transition sequences only rivaled by American Werewolf in London. It also has some brain twisting scenes of decadence, such as the banquet where all the upper class guests morph into savage, ravenous beasts.
If you're looking to "stray from the path" and enjoy a mind warping interpretation of a classic genre film, you can't go wrong here, but don't mistake this for a family movie. Its themes reach very much into adult oriented content.
The Company of Wolves was director Neil Jordan's 1984 fantasy examination of the taboos around sexuality and the coming of age, cleverly woven around the Red Riding Hood fairy tale of a young girl, a missing granny and a voracious wolf. The film features the legendary Angela Lansbury as the mono-brow admonishing grandmother, warning her granddaughter to "Never trust a man who's eyebrows meet in the middle".
The film is notable for some fairly advanced special effects for the time, with some transition sequences only rivaled by American Werewolf in London. It also has some brain twisting scenes of decadence, such as the banquet where all the upper class guests morph into savage, ravenous beasts.
If you're looking to "stray from the path" and enjoy a mind warping interpretation of a classic genre film, you can't go wrong here, but don't mistake this for a family movie. Its themes reach very much into adult oriented content.
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