The Company of Wolves with Angela Lansbury: DVD Cover

    The Company of Wolves Director: Neil Jordan Cast: Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Stephen Rea, Tusse Silberg

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/15/2002
    • Original Release: 1984
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 16,841

    Viewer Rating: (3 ratings)

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    Features

    Widescreen (1.78:1); Chapter search; Interactive menus; Original theatrical trailers and photo gallery

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Start [8:46]
    2. A Sister's Death [4:54]
    3. Never Too Young [4:43]
    4. Call of Nature [9:03]
    5. Bedtime [8:19]
    6. The Devil's Gift [5:55]
    7. Walk in the Woods [10:25]
    8. Once Upon a Time [10:00]
    9. Off to Granny's [8:09]
    10. Disguises [9:55]
    11. A Wounded Wolf [7:55]
    12. End Credits [3:06]

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    Editorial Reviews

    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. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    October 24, 2002: The widescreen DVD version is much better than the old VHS transfer in displaying the sumptuous visual style of this special film. There is wonderful color rendition but some visible DVD movement artifacts and the soundtrack seems to have been recorded with automatic level control. Still, it's great to have a DVD of this one. Originally marketed in the US as a genre horror movie, Neil Jordan's ''The Company of Wolves'' is anything but commonplace. Based on stories in ''The Bloody Chamber'' by Angela Carter, this film is a flood of imaginative and sensual images depicting the emerging adolescence of a thirteen year old girl. She dreams herself as a young villager in a fairy tale world built around an old well in the woods. The village is besieged by wolf attacks and at becomes apparent that these wolves turn into humans and vice versa. Ultimately, the girl herself (or at least her childhood ? you decide) becomes the victim of her own untamed wolf nature. Only marred by one gratuitous gore scene of a man peeling bloody skin from his face while turning into a wolf (using latex and prosthetic work popular at the time). Beautiful and rich music score by George Fenton.

    This review was written about the VHS edition.