The Desire...The Fantasy...The Nightmare.
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?
- 6.3
- 1984
- Released
- 1h 35m
Sarah Patterson
Rosaleen
Angela Lansbury
Granny
David Warner
Father
Graham Crowden
Old Priest
Brian Glover
Amorous Boy's Father
Kathryn Pogson
Young Bride
Stephen Rea
Young Groom
Tusse Silberg
Mother
Micha Bergese
Hunstman
Georgia Slowe
Alice
Susan Porrett
Amorous Boy's Mother
Shane Johnstone
Amorous Boy
Dawn Archibald
Witch Woman
Richard Morant
Wealthy GroomDanielle Dax
WolfgirlVincent McClaren
Devil BoyRuby Buchanan
Dowager
Jimmy Gardner
AncientRoy Evans
EyepatchEdward Marksen
Lame FiddlerJim Brown
Blind Fiddler
Jim Carter
Second Husband (uncredited)
Terence Stamp
The Devil (uncredited)
Released
en
$2,000,000.00
$4,389,334.00
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- #grandparent grandchild relationship
- #wolf
- #fairy tale
- #halloween
- #little red riding hood
- #werewolf
- #ireland
- #grandmother
- #dark fairy tale
- #dark forest
- #fairytale
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There's a lot of "Little Red Riding Hood" to this Neil Jordan fantasy about the young "Rosaleen" (Sarah Patterson). This woman is prone to vivid dreams set many centuries earlier, where she lives happily with her parents (and without her dull as ditchwater sister) and where she is regular regaled with portentous stories by her grandmother (Angela Lansbury). It's in one such dream, and whilst walki
This film is pretentious. Wizard of Oz meets a horror movie to discuss the s(REDACTED)xuality of a (REDACTED FOR ARBITRARY REASONS!!!!)aged girl. This is a pretentious art house movie and one that thinks that it is vastly more intelligent than it really is. It wants to retell the Little Red Riding hood story in a semi-erotic way, but never actually achieves it. But, at least it's pretty.