

The Company of Wolves
The Desire...The Fantasy...The Nightmare.
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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6.3/10
406 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2M
- Box office
- $4.4M
- Language
- English
- dreams
- grandparent grandchild relationship
- wolf
- fairy tale
- halloween
- little red riding hood
- werewolf
- ireland
- grandmother
- dark fairy tale
- dark forest
- fairytale
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Produced in
United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR19 Apr 1985
- PhysicalRVestron Video #VA5092 [VHS] 95 minutes11 Jul 1985
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1821 Sept 1984
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)R21 Sept 1984
GermanyDE
- Theatrical168 Mar 1985
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1826 Oct 1984
SpainES
- Theatrical25 Oct 1985
Frequently asked questions
The Company of Wolves was released on 21 September 1984.
Audience reviews
3- G1/10
GenerationofSwine
1/12/2023
This film is pretentious. Wizard of Oz meets a horror movie to discuss the s(REDACTED)xuality of a (REDACTED FOR ARBITRARY REASONS!!!!)aged girl. This is a pretentious art house movie and one that thinks that it is vastly more intelligent than it really is. It wants to retell the Little Red Riding hood story in a semi-erotic way, but never actually achieves it. But, at least it's pretty.
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/24/2023
There's a lot of "Little Red Riding Hood" to this Neil Jordan fantasy about the young "Rosaleen" (Sarah Patterson). This woman is prone to vivid dreams set many centuries earlier, where she lives happily with her parents (and without her dull as ditchwater sister) and where she is regular regaled with portentous stories by her grandmother (Angela Lansbury). It's in one such dream, and whilst walking through the woods…
- F8/10
FolknHell
8/23/2026
*The Company of Wolves* initially looks as though it has been trapped indoors. Its forests are obviously constructed, its village feels theatrical, and even the electronic score occasionally threatens to wander in from an early-1980s *Doctor Who*. Then the film quietly makes the case that this artificiality is not something to forgive. It is the point. Rosaleen is dreaming, and Neil Jordan’s film allows the dream …
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