Monday, October 25, 2010

31 Frights #25: THE COMPANY OF WOLVES [1984]

The key US release art of Neil Jordan’s second film featured a wolf’s snout protruding painfully from a man’s mouth, an appropriately disturbing image for this dreamy Freudian shocker. Jordan’s work often leaves me cold, but his Gothic fairy tale has more than its share of memorably startling moments, and a refreshingly graceful feminist slant.

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