Review – The Company of Wolves

If ever a film deserved an E for effort, this one should get it. How many other horror movies explore the sexual dimensions of lycanthropy from a woman’s point of view? Though there’s a fair amount of gore-intensive effects work to be found here, for the most part this production is a sober treatment of werewolf legends – ranging from witchcraft and pacts with Satan right down to Little Red Riding Hood – loosely woven together by an adolescent girl’s dreams. Thus the ambiguous, frightening yet alluring experience of sexual awakening becomes the main theme of the picture. And if nothing else, you have to love the “wolves” the film-makers use; most if not all of the live canines in the movie are obviously fluffy dogs, occasionally menacing but more often than not merely cute. Worth seeing