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The Company of Wolves

1984 · 95 min

A lush, dreamlike plunge into fairy-tale dread, where desire and danger blur and stories nest inside stories.

Tagline
The Desire...The Fantasy...The Nightmare.
Overview
Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?
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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • sexuality
  • fate
  • deception
Places
  • countryside
  • single country house
  • fantasy world
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror7
Humour2
Realism2
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
horror, fantasy
Directed by
Neil Jordan
Written by
Charles Perrault, Neil Jordan, Angela Carter
Starring
Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Graham Crowden, Brian Glover, Kathryn Pogson, Stephen Rea, Tusse Silberg
Music
George Fenton
Cinematography
Bryan Loftus
Runtime
95 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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