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The Company of Wolves

The Desire...The Fantasy...The Nightmare.

6.3(406)19841h 35m5

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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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

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Neil Jordan

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
  • G

    GenerationofSwine

    1/12/2023

    1/10

    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.

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    7/24/2023

    7/10

    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…

  • F

    FolknHell

    8/23/2026

    8/10

    *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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