August 13, 2009
Loved this growing up
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.
DVD Release Date: October 15, 2002
Stats: 485 reviews
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February 14, 2009This is seriously one of the trippiest films I have ever seen! Not to mention, fuckin' Murder-She-Wrote's in it!
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November 4, 2008I was really excited for the old skool special effects, but the lack of interesting story finally caught up with it by the end.
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April 4, 2008A 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.
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August 12, 2007The 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)
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November 6, 2009Neil 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)
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November 3, 2009Gave 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) -
October 21, 2009Where 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) -
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August 10, 2009At 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)
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