UK / USA,
1984, 95 min
Directed by:
Neil JordanScreenplay:
Neil JordanCinematography:
Bryan LoftusComposer:
George FentonCast:
Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Stephen Rea, Sarah Patterson, Susan Porrett, Terence Stamp, Jim Carter, Georgia Slowe, Brian Glover, Graham Crowden (more)Plots(1)
Fascinating and imaginative, The Company of Wolves brings together the timeless Little Red Riding Hood and werewolf fables with a haunting, compelling, eerie and erotic difference. This movie is a magical bag of symbolic folklore about werewolves or rather their sexual connotation. Grandmother tells her granddaughter Sarah strange, disturbing tales about innocent maidens falling in love with handsome, heavily eyebrowed strangers that have a smouldering look in their eyes. She also tells her of sudden disappearances of spouses when the moon is round and the wolves are howling in the woods. (ITV DVD)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 1985 - Best Costume Design
- 1985 - Best Make Up/Hair
- 1985 - Best Production Design
- 1985 - Best Special Visual Effects
Sitges Film Festival
- 1984 - Neil Jordan (Best Feature Length Film)
- 1984 - Christopher Tucker (Best Special Effects)
- 1984 - Neil Jordan (Critic’s Award)
Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival
- 1985 - Neil Jordan (Special Jury Award)
- 1985 - Neil Jordan (Grand Prize)