Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Stephen Rea

After hearing her grandmother's stories about dangerous men, a 13-year-old girl has nightmares that transform her into Little Red Riding Hood.

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R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Neil Jordan

Release Date: September 21, 1984

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DVD Release Date: October 15, 2002

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  • August 13, 2009
    Loved this growing up
  • February 14, 2009
    This is seriously one of the trippiest films I have ever seen! Not to mention, fuckin' Murder-She-Wrote's in it!

    "Never trust a man whose eyebrows meet." - wise words granny, wise words.
  • November 4, 2008
    I was really excited for the old skool special effects, but the lack of interesting story finally caught up with it by the end.
  • April 4, 2008
    A wonderfully designed mixture of fairytale and pure psychedelic fantasy. The transformation dinner sequence is worthy of werewolf legend and the whole film feels like some possessive dream. A wonderful oddity even if it doesn't feel like a traditional film.
  • August 12, 2007
    The company of wolves is very far from being the typical movie about werewolves, it's very different from films such as An American Werewolf in London or The Howling. This film is full of symbolism, it's a kind of rewriting of Perrault's Little Red Ridding Hood with Freudian elem...( read more)ents. The film was directed by Neil Jordan, but in it we can notice the writing of Angela Carter, an author who is mainly interested in rewriting folklore myths from a feminist point of view. If you see this film you will enter a world of magic, of dreams, not only by means of the script, but also by the settings, which are really wonderful. The film itself deals with the end of childhood and the beginning of adolescence, with all its sexual connotations, and the loss of innocence. When we become adults we realize life is not a magic tale. All this is treated from a feminist point of view, the main character is a girl who dreams about several stories with werewolves. Visually the movie is incredible, and it manages to reflect the symbolism of woods, the mixture of light and darkness, the magic creatures which live there during the night and the dangerous inside them especially for the girls who don't follow the path. From my point of view the film is one of the best dealing with the myth of werewolves, mainly because the film is a metaphor of life, of the human specie, all of us have an animal inside.
  • November 6, 2009
    Neil Jordan should do more fantasy, he has a perfect eye for it. Here he retells Little Red Riding Hood, and then some. It's a gorgeous, sumptuous film with beautiful production design (Furst works the same magic he did with Batman), and some fucking amazing werewolf transformati...( read more)on scenes. Only An American Werewolf In London has done it better.
  • November 3, 2009
    Gave this another look for the Halloween '09 season, and man it's every but as eerie and surreal as it was all those years ago on VHS.

    Dreamy and unsettling, drifting through a world of fantasy, this is a wonderful mood piece, filled with practical effects, old world superstitio...( read more)ns and Gothic style to burn.

    Highly recommended.
  • October 21, 2009
    Where fairy stories meet horror stories.



    Oh my goodness. How come I never checked out this movie before?! Shame on me. Anyways, I thought this was an amazing movie. Almost everything about this film I loved. The setting was e...( read more)xquisite; forest scenes are my favorite. There was so much to this movie; the fantasy, innocence, creepiness and other-worldliness painted an enchanting portrait. The ending was a little predictable but it was cool nonetheless. Great little movie.
    I recommend this to anyone who likes the dark side of fairy tales.
  • August 14, 2009
    One of my top three favorite movies of all time!
  • August 10, 2009
    At first I was constantly cracking up but towards the end it actually improved. Lots of symbolism and pretty scenes. Though I would say that Carter's Bloody Chamber is maybe more fruitful to read than watching this. Despite the charming wolf. And folks: if you see a n...( read more)aked man prowling in the woods, run for your life! xD

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  • MaXthOm
    October 12, 2006
    you'll love it. even if you don't understand the plot one bit

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