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The Company of Wolves (1984)
In director Neil Jordan's stylish fantasy horror film
that updated the folklore fable/fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood:
- the troubled dreams of a pubescent, almost 13 years
old Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) on the verge of sexual awakening,
wearing her sister's lipstick (and symbolically Little Red Riding
Hood), that expressed her fearful anxieties about men and approaching
womanhood and sexuality
- the scene of Rosaleen's revenge-dream of her "killing" off
her older sister Alice (Georgia Slowe) in a fairy-tale wooded forest
by wolves
- Rosaleen's visit with her matronly Granny (Angela
Lansbury), who gave cautionary fairy tales and advice ("Once
upon a time...") about wolves while knitting a red protective
shawl-cloak for Rosaleen: "Never stray from the path, never
eat a windfall apple, and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet in
the middle," and "Oh, they're nice as pie until they've
had their way with you. But once the bloom is gone... oh, the beast
comes out"; Granny's advice was to not stray from the path
- in the woods on her way to her Granny's house in the
woods, Rosaleen's meeting of a handsome, attractive and tempting
Huntsman (Micha Bergese) - who transformed into a wolf with its snout
forcing its way out through his gaping mouth, killed the Granny,
and encouraged her to rid herself of her shawl
- the scene of a pregnant witchy forest woman (Dawn
Archibald) cursing everyone at a 19th century wedding party and horrifically
transforming the newlyweds and their families into long-snouted werewolves
- one of Granny's tales, told to Rosaleen, in which
a Young Bride's (Kathryn Pogson) missing Young Groom (Stephen Rea)
appeared many years later in her log cabin where she was living with
her new second husband (Jim Carter); angered and jealous, the Young
Groom ripped open his face to expose his "hairy" insides
in another werewolf transformation scene, before being killed by
her new husband
- the final scene of a lone wolf crashing into Rosaleen's
real waking-life bedroom window as she screamed
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Granny
(Angela Lansbury)
Rosaleen
(Sarah Patterson)
Huntsman
Transformed Into Wolf
Missing Young Groom Transformed into Werewolf
Wolf Crashing Through Rosaleen's Bedroom Window
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