Comment Okay so on some level its a "deeply profound view on feminity and sexuality", and it really is.
It is however, an extremely visual and memorable movie. Its a very dark, twisted and gothic movie and is definitely worth a look. Its a bit hard going on the noodle for some people, however given its impact and ties to the genre (although admittedly its more Fantasy/Fairy Tale than horror) I would recommend you at least try and see if you like this movie.
This movie is in fact a magical bag full of symbolic folklore about werewolves, or, rather, their sexual connotation. Grandmother Angela Lansbury tells her granddaughter Sarah Patterson strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers with a smouldering 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 reducable 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.
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Company of the Wolves (1984) - INFECT
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Title................: Company of the Wolves
Year.................: 1984
Genre................: Fantasy / Werewolves
Duration.............: 01:31:19
IMDb Rating..........: 6.5/10
Movie Information....: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087075/
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Source...............: DVD
Cut..................: UNCUT
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Ripper...............: Me with Gknot
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Video Format.........: XviD Audio Format.........: AC3
Video Bitrate........: 2089 kb/s Encoder..............: --
Bits/Pixel...........: 0.323 Bitrate..............: 192 KB/s (CBR)
Resolution...........: 672 x 384 Hz...................: 48,000
FPS..................: 25fps Channels.............: 2.0
Original Format......: PAL DVD/CD...............: 1/3rd DVD
Packed Bitstream ....: No CQM..................: Jawors 2cd
Language.............: English Subtitles............: English
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
Susan Porrett .... Amorous Boy's mother
Shane Johnstone .... Amorous Boy
Dawn Archibald .... Witch Woman
Richard Morant .... Wealthy Groom
Danielle Dax .... Wolfgirl
Company of Wolves is Little Red Riding Hood for the Alien generation. Sheltered
13-year-old Sarah Patterson, living on the edge of a foreboding woods, is
visited by her grandmother Angela Lansbury. The old lady delights in telling
Sarah the most horrific stories, usually involving what happens to little girls
if they trust wolves--the actual, rather than symbolic kind. Later on, Sarah
sets out through the woods to visit her grandmother. She makes the acquaintance
of a seductive young huntsman (Micha Bergese), who turns out to be.....well,
what big teeth he's got. The ads for Company of Wolves, showing a wolf
springing from the open mouth of poor little Sarah Patterson, were warning
enough for the faint of heart. Actually, the horror is secondary to the
remarkable Grimms-Fairy-Tale ambience which the film successfully sustains
from beginning to end. And, in keeping with the original unexpurgated versions
of most fairy tales, the sexual subtext is never far from the surface.
Director Neil Jordan would further develop some of the subliminal themes in
Company of Wolves in his 1994 production Interview with the Vampire.
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