Story Line
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?
“The Desire...The Fantasy...The Nightmare.”
Top Cast
Sarah Patterson
Rosaleen
Angela Lansbury
Granny
David Warner
Father
Graham Crowden
Old Priest
Brian Glover
Amorous Boy's Father
Kathryn Pogson
Young Bride
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Rating
6.3/ 10
Release Date
1984-09-21
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
HorrorFantasy
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User Reviews (2)
GenerationofSwine
1/10
•1/12/2023This 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 ...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•7/24/2023There'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 ditc...