History Film / TheCompanyOfWolves

* BodyHorror: The transformation scenes.

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Not really. She gets attacked after waking up.]]
* AlwaysNight: Almost the entire film takes place in the dark and has a hypnotic surreal nightmarish atmosphere about it.
* 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...
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Rosaleen herself, according to Alice. But then, Rosaleen did steal her lipstick.

* TheBigBadWolf: [[spoiler:The Huntsman.]]
* BigBadassWolf

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The entire movie is this.

* DownTheRabbitHole

* GainaxEnding: Quite simply, where did all those "wolves" come from?

* {{Grimmification}}

* TheLostWoods: The entire setting oozes this.

* AManIsAlwaysEager[=/=]AllMenArePerverts: Granny's opinion about male sexuality. The mother challenges this. [[spoiler: Turns out the mother is right, ultimately subverting this.]]
* MoodWhiplash: A man goes through the TransformationTrauma mentioned below, the music is suitably grim, the visuals horrifying... then he's a perfectly friendly wolf that's just happy to sit next to the girl.

* NestedStory: Gran, and later Rosaleen, tell stories about wolves, what they do, and what they want. This being a WorldOfSymbolism is working out how adult sexuality actually works.

* OpposedMentors: Granny and Rosaleen's mother.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They're metaphors for sexuality for one thing.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The priest, who doesn't take as harsh a view towards wolves or sexuality as Granny.

* SavageWolves: The major theme of the film.

* ShirtlessScene: A very creepy example with The Huntsman. Whether it's FanService or FanDisservice depends on [[spoiler: how [[FetishFuel hairy]] you like your men]].
* ShowWithinAShow: The bulk of the story is a dream, in which Rosaleen hears stories from the people around her about the wolves. [[spoiler: And when she [[GainaxEnding wakes up]]....]]

* StayOnThePath: [[spoiler: Played Straight, Subverted]] Granny instructs Rosaleen never to stray from the path when walking through the woods. [[spoiler: This is ultimately challenged because whenever Rosaleen strays from the path, she learns important lessons.]]
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: In the darkness of the Woods we see the shining yellow eyes of the wolves staring back at us several times.

* TransformationTrauma

* Supernatural Gold Eyes: In the darkness of the Woods we see the shining yellow eyes of the wolves staring back at us several times.

• OverlyLongTongue: Rosaleen's love interest in the end is a werewolf and has a long, canine like creepy tongue.
* Painful Transformation - The infamous werewolf transformation scene where a man peels of his own skin, to reveal a Nightmare Face, only to have a werewolf burst out from his mouth, transforming him entirely into a wild bloodthirsty wolf. Then his head is chopped off by someone!

* Always Night: Almost the entire film takes place in the dark and has a hypnotic surreal nightmarish atmosphere about it.

Rosaleen, a young girl ("I'm twelve and three-quarters old!"), falls asleep in her parents' mansion and dreams of living in a medieval village. After her sister is killed in the forest by a pack of wolves, her grandmother comforts Rosaleen, telling her several stories of the dangers of deceptive wolves who roam the forest at night, looking for young girls. 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.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Rosaleen. Sarah Patterson went on to play Snow White two years later.

* bodyHorror: The transformation scenes.

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".]]

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''.

* MoodWhiplash: A man goes through the TransformationTrauma mentioned below, the music is suitably grim, the visuals horrifying...then he's a perfectly friendly wolf that's just happy to sit next to the girl.

* OneSceneWonder: Stephen Rea as the traveler husband in the first story and the actress who played the pregnant witch in the third.

* LittleDeadRedHood: This is set up all through the movie, particularly towards the last trip to Granny's house when Rosaleen finds blood by the gate.

* ColorMotif: White objects turning red happens more than once.

* LittleRedDeadHood: This is set up all through the movie, particularly towards the last trip to Granny's house when Rosaleen finds blood by the gate.

* AManIsAlwaysEager[=/=]AllMenArePerverts: Granny's opinion about male sexuality. The mother challenges this. [[spoiler: Turns out the mother is right, ultimately subverting this.]]

* {{UST}}: Squickily between Rosaleen and the Huntsman, in particular the scene where he takes off her red cape and throws it in the fire.

* OneNameGiven: Rosaleen and Alice.

* AManIsAlwaysEager[=/=]AllMenArePerverts: Granny's opinion about male sexuality.

* GainaxEnding

* StayOnThePath: [[spoiler: Played Straight, Subverted]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic

* AManIsAlwaysEager[=/=]AllMenArePerverts: Granny's thinking about male sexuality.

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

Think of it as LittleRedRidingHood, written by Sigmund Freud and directed by David Lynch. BetterThanItSounds...

!! This movie provides examples of the following tropes:

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

* MagicPants: Averted. The traveller husband in the first story strips off to transform and the [[spoiler: Huntsman's clothes rip off as he transforms]].

* NoNameGiven: The Huntsman.
* OneSceneWonder: Stephen Rea as the traveller husband in the first story and the actress who played the pregnant witch in the third.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent

* {{UST}}: Squickily between Rosaline and the Huntsman, in particular the scene where he takes off her red cape and throws it in the fire.

* FreudWasRight
* FridgeLogic: The opening of the movie shows how big the house is and how there are at least four stories. I wonder how [[spoiler:a wolf could jump through the window into her room]].

* TheBigBadWolf: [[spoiler:The Huntsman.]]