Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfclp!fritz From: fritz@hpfclp.UUCP (fritz) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: The Company of Wolves Message-ID: <11900003@hpfclp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 18:40:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfclp.11900003 Posted: Wed Apr 24 18:40:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Apr-85 06:39:50 EDT Lines: 56 Nf-ID: #N:hpfclp:11900003:000:2854 Nf-From: hpfclp!fritz Apr 24 17:40:00 1985 I really don't know how to approach a review of this movie, but it's so unique and... fascinating that I'm going to try. Here goes: The_Company_of_Wolves is a dreamy, surrealistic, sometimes scary movie that could be looked on as an "art film" version of Little Red Riding Hood. It shifts frequently from one reality to another (e.g. from a dream to a story told IN the dream), and eventually these realities start to get a little blurred. It's filled with images that leap out and grasp your mind, often leaving you reeling. Sometimes the imagery seems disconnected or disjointed, making you wonder what it meant, but none the less it fascinates you. I saw the movie with a friend, and we were rather dumfounded when we came out -- but we kept marvelling about the intensity, beauty, and bad craziness of the movie. This is prime midnight-movie-cult material, kinda like An_American_Werewolf_in_London. Except aAWiL's main feature was its nutty black humor; in tCoW it's the visual trip and bizarre twists. A warning: there are a few scenes in this movie that get fairly gory. One scene of a man-into-wolf transformation comes immediately to mind. If you're bothered by this kind of thing, you can just close your eyes through a few scenes. If, however, you like movies that really tap-dance on your psyche, I think you'll enjoy tCoW. In some respects it's a horror movie; it certainly has the tension of a good horror flick. But it's much more than that. You'll have to see it yourself to see what I mean. I plan to see it again! Gary Fritz Hewlett Packard Ft Collins, CO {ihnp4,hplabs}!hpfcla!fritz ********************* MILD SPOILER ALERT ***************************** The story begins with a nice English family coming home from a shopping trip. The parents tell the older daughter to go fetch the younger daughter (who the older daughter evidently isn't very fond of). The younger, however, is locked in her room, deep in a mysterious dream. (That, by the way, is all you ever see of the rest of the family [in THAT reality, anyway!] -- the only return to the original reality is occasional flashes back to the dreaming girl.) The dream begins with the eldest daughter being chased, and (apparently) killed, by wolves. The setting is a deep, dark forest in olde England. Thereafter, the youngest daughter (Rosalee) spends time with her grandmother (Angela Landsbury! [sp]), who tells her many dark tales of wolves -- those that are hairy on the outside AND those that are hairy on the inside! Further developments in the plot reveal the fear of the villagers for the wolves, and (much worse) the werewolves. There is eventually a confrontation in Granny's house (Granny, by the way, has knitted Rosalee a bright-red cape! How quaint) with one of the baddies, and strange things happen from there. See it. It'll warp ya.