The Company of Wolves

Director: Neil Jordan
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Cult, Fairy tale, Creature Film
Year: 1984
Country: United Kingdom, England, United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea, David Warner, Terence Stamp, Tusse Silberg, Micha Bergese, Brian Glover, Graham Crowden, Kathryn Pogson, Georgia Slowe

The Company of Wolves is a 1984 British Gothic fantasy-horror film directed by Neil Jordan, written by Angela Carter and Jordan, and starring Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Rea and David Warner.

The film is based on the werewolf story of the same name in Angela Carter's short story collection The Bloody Chamber. Carter herself co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan, based on her own short story and her earlier adaptation of The Company of Wolves for radio.

Carter's first draft of the screenplay, which contains some differences from the finished film, has been published in her anthology The Curious Room (1996).

Set in modern times, the film takes place within the dreams of Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson), a young girl. Rosaleen dreams that she lives in a fairytale forest with her parents (Tusse Silberg and David Warner) and sister (Georgia Slowe), but one day her sister is killed by wolves. While her parents are mourning, Rosaleen goes to live with her grandmother (Angela Lansbury), who knits a bright red shawl for her granddaughter to wear. The superstitious old woman gives Rosaleen an ominous warning, to beware men whose eyebrows meet. Rosaleen returns to her village, but finds

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