Big Worlds On Small Screens & Fantasy/Sci-Fi Films You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: Rebecca Fisher Discusses “The Company of Wolves”

~ by Rebecca Fisher

If you were ever to try retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood whilst high on an acid trip, you might well end up with this film. With layered framing devices, nested stories-within-stories, and plenty of dream sequences, I guarantee that The Company of Wolves is one of the strangest movies you’ll ever see.

Directed by Neil Jordan, who specializes in dark-and-bloody films, and adapted from Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, a short-story collection that explores the...