History Film / TheCompanyOfWolves

** The pregnant witch in the third story, who not only [[KarmicTransformation turns her baby-daddy into a wolf for having dumped her]], but also extends this retaliation to his newly-wed bride and ''all'' their wedding guests.

** The Young Bride's second husband slapping her is a dick move but he does have a good reason to be annoyed that she let a werewolf into the house and endangered all their children. He had no reason to know she didn't know he was a wolf.

* DevilInPlainSight: The sinister looking guy who pulls up in a ''Rolls Royce'' in the middle of the forest, in times way before automobiles, is clearly bad news.

* TheCavalierYears: Aside from the modern setting of the Framing Device (and some AnachronismStew moments), most of the fashion and aesthetics in the film date to the Georgian era of the 18th Century.

* AnachronismStew: The second story told about how the Devil arrives in the woods in a Rolls Royce to give a Victorian boy a potion. Of course it ''is'' a dream...

* FramingDevice: The real world scenes where we firmly establish that the majority of the movie is a dream.

* GainaxEnding: Where did all those "wolves" come from? And is Rosaleen still dreaming at that point? Neil Jordan's original ending would have had her jumping to the floor -- where she would disappear as if into water.

* SexAsRiteOfPassage: [[spoiler: Rosaleen didn't turn into a wolf by herself, y'know.]]
* SexuallytransmittedSuperpower: [[spoiler: See above.]]

Rosaleen, a young girl ("[[MissingTrailerScene I'm twelve and three-quarters old!]]"), falls asleep in her parents' mansion and dreams of living in a quaint medieval village. After her sister is killed in the forest by a pack of wolves, her grandmother comforts Rosaleen by telling her several stories of the dangers of deceptive wolves who roam the forest at night, looking for young girls to devour... She is informed to never trust a [[BigOlUnibrow man whose eyebrows meet in the middle]] and that the most dangerous wolves are "The ones with fur on the inside".

A 1984 horror/fantasy film directed by Creator/NeilJordan and written by Angela Carter. Loosely based on a short-story of the same name from the anthology ''Literature/TheBloodyChamber''.[[note]]The film also includes elements from two other stories in the collection, "The Werewolf" and "Wolf-Alice".[[/note]]

Think of it as "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood", written by UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud and directed by Creator/DavidLynch.

A 1984 horror/fantasy film directed by Neil Jordan and written by Angela Carter. Loosely based on a short-story of the same name from the anthology ''Literature/TheBloodyChamber''.[[note]]The film also includes elements from two other stories in the collection, "The Werewolf" and "Wolf-Alice".[[/note]]

* TheLostWoods: The whole dream is set in medieval times where this trope came from. Wolves live there and they're ''not'' mundane ones...

[[caption-width-right:300:''"Don't stray from the path."'']]

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: The three female protagonists of each of the stories (the protagonist of the second is a boy). The Young Bride is blonde, the She Wolf is brunette and the Witch Woman is redhead.

** [[spoiler: The moment the wolf/huntsman knocks off Granny's head seems to be out of left field, unless you remember that while other major characters were featured in the real world sequences--Rosaleen's parents and sister--Granny was never a person at all. She was one of the dolls in Rosaleen's room.]]

--> '''Granny''': Never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple, and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet.

* BittersweetEnding: The same as most coming of age stories--Rosaleen learns about being an adult, at the cost of childhood innocence.

* BrokenBird: Gran's rants against men, love, and sexuality hint at this.

--> '''Granny''': "Never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple, and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet."

* FeministFantasy: Angela Carter was a diehard feminist, and her collection of short stories were based on feminist reworkings of classic fairy tales. The film takes ''Red Riding Hood'' variants which taught girls to be afraid of their own sexuality, and turns it around so that Rosaleen is empowered by it instead.

* GainaxEnding: Where did all those "wolves" come from? And is Rosaleen still dreaming at that point? Neil Jordan's original ending would have had her jumping to the floor - where she would disappear as if into water.

--> "I heard ''everything'', you irreverent old woman."

* ShoutOut: The fairy tale forest was inspired by Creator/GustaveDore 's illustrations for Creator/CharlesPerrault's ''Fairy Tales of Mother Goose'', especially ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''.

* BitchAlert: Rosaleen's sister Alice. It's no wonder she gets eaten by wolves at the very start off the dream!

* ActingForTwo: In the scene with the Rolls Royce, an alternate, unnamed, more hussied out version of Rosaleen with makeup and a blonde wig is the Devil's chauffeur.

* JerkassHasAPoint: The Young Bride's second husband slapping her is a dick move but he does have a good reason to be annoyed that she let a werewolf into the house and endangered all their children. He had no reason to know she didn't know he was a wolf.

* ShowWithinAShow: The bulk of the story is a dream, in which Rosaleen hears stories from the people around her about the wolves. [[spoiler: When she [[GainaxEnding wakes up]]....]]

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They're metaphors for sexuality in general.

* {{Werewolf}}: The wolves in the woods, as well as those who transform into wolves all symbolize the idea of men and their impure, doglike nature and their intentions toward women.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The girl on the DVD cover dressed in Rosaleen's clothing is clearly not Rosaleen. It's a random woman not even appearing in the movie.