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Extra Credit 030 - The Company of Wolves (Patreon)

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2024-12-26 15:00:04
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As a follow-up to Red Riding Hood, we're discussing the 1984 film The Company of Wolves, as well as the Angela Carter story it's based on.

The Angela Lansbury movie that Fifer couldn't remember was GASLIGHT! A delicious irony, considering how often the word is used today!

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robert oszakiewski

It's interesting that, although there are references to Gaslight and Murder She Wrote, no one thought to mention Dame Angela Lansbury's best movie role, as Mrs. Eleanor Iselin, the McCarthyite who turns out to be an agent of the Soviet Union, in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The scene where she reveals the long gestating plan to install a right wing dictatorship that would actually be a Soviet puppet government to her son Raymond, played by Laurence Harvey, is one of the greatest and scariest scenes in movie history.

Wulf Mungus

So Chris's biggest issue with all these tales referring to people pee'ing... is that they never actually pee ...?

Allison Albright

There are two wolves inside me and both of them enjoyed these wolf episodes. Terrible jokes aside, I think we can squeeze a lot of meaning from any given werewolf - they can symbolize our wilder nature, our baser instincts, warnings to girls, or a rejection of social conventions and the restraints of civilization. In all these metaphors I think we identify ourselves as domesticated dogs and look wistfully, and maybe with a bit of alarm, at the wilder creatures we could have been.

Jim Cannon

I saw this myself for the first time this past October, as it popped up on Tubi when I was looking for horror movies to watch. I liked it quite a bit. It was eerie and dreamlike and very strange, but it had werewolves and David Warner, two of my favorite things. I found myself nodding along during this episode, as you guys talked about the creepy neighbor kid, or the effectiveness of shooting the whole thing on a soundstage, creating this closed off claustrophobic environment for the stories to unfold within. And so on. I don't really have anything useful to add, I'm just glad you covered it. Its a pretty great movie!

Tara Murphy

Back when I was living in Toronto I was walking my dog downtown one day. Across the busy 4 lane street I spotted a lady walking a regular dog and what looked like an enormous wolf. There was something very un-doglike about it, even apart from its size. My dog was totally freaked out even though we were no where near it and it had already passed us and was walking away. My pup, a pit bull cross, was desperate to get away from it. I could tell he really did not want to be noticed. So, yeah, wolves, or wolf crosses, feel different in person. Even from across a busy road in a big city, with a cowardly pitbull at your side. I haven't seen this film since the long ago days of video stores. Time for a rewatch, I think! Sadly, a wolf never burst through my window in my adolescence. I can't speak for other ladies though.

Ian Scanlon

Similar to the impact of the poster in the video shop. I was obsessed with this film on the basis of hearing a feature on it on BBC radio fours old arts show Kaleidoscope, when I was 9. Years later it was on TV while i was staying at my grandmas (nb not a wolf) and i watched it on a tiny TV in the spare bedroom really quietly so as not to wake her up! The best way!

The Eldritch Dark

I’ve just had the pleasure of watching Nosferatu in a cinema. Best. Vampire. Movie. Ever. However the ‘Harker arrives at Castle Dracula’ scene is forever ruined by my knowledge that Dracula/ Nosferatu cooked that Chicken himself. 🤣

It's a Ghost.

I really liked the movie but wasn't a big fan of the end either. And apparently Neil Jordan wasn't a big fan of the ending either. Here is a quote from him from the Wikipedia page for the movie. "The only thing I was not happy with in that movie was the ending. That's where the limitations of the budget came. The theme of the movie is a young girl's discovery of her own power, so to end it with her screaming was not enough. What we had written was her waking from this strange dream in her bedroom, standing up on the bed and diving into the floor. The floor is like a pool of water. She vanishes and this floor kind of ripples and goes back to wood again. I just didn't know how to realize it. I think the ending now blunts the film as a whole." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Company_of_Wolves

Robert Reineke

I'm reminded by a story told by artist Stephen Bissette while he was drawing issue #40 of Swamp Thing during the Alan Moore run, how he was working on coming up with a unique way for a werewolf translation and he thought he finally came up with something truly original. Only for the poster of The Company of Wolves to have the exact same idea before the issue came out. Something must have been in the air. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a4/16/8a/a4168a9c0b05564e896d9017b0176518.jpg

James Anthony

In the wild, wolves run in packs. A "lone wolf" is one who's either somehow unbalanced to the point that other wolves shun them, or has been through a traumatic event that separated them from their pack. Is it a surprise that werewolves in horror, who've been through a traumatic event and don't have a pack to go to for support, are also frequently lone wolves?