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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
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Subject: Re: The Company of Wolves (non-spoiler)...
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 14:09:32 EDT
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> 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....
> ...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.

I don't think this movie will catch on as cult material, at least not
in the same way that "Rocky Horror Picture Show" or "Liquid Sky" have
caught on.  More than other cult films, this is a thinking film and
with an atmosphere and fell to it that are (at least in my opinion)
quite foreign to the typical american cult movie viewer.

============================= Slight Spoiler =================================
The audience that I saw the movie with became quite hostile towards the
end when Rosalee began quoting from "Petite you know what."  They
wanted blood.  They wanted gore.  They wanted to watch wolves ripping
Rosalee's supple young body into bloody shreds of meat.  And that line,
"My... what big eyes you have...." had them rolling in the ailes.  I
couldn't make out what else was being said, although I could well imagine.
==============================================================================

Also, I think that the first man/wolf transformation scene was somewhat
excessive.  But remember.... this is a British film.  They do that sort of
think in the good old UK.  I think the mechanical effects people were in
essence saying, "Look what WE can do with latex foam!"
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