Format: Streaming video from Tubi TV on Fire!
I’ve watched the bulk of the first quarter of the They Shoot Zombies list. By that I mean that I’ve seen more than 90% of the first 250 movies, and of the ones I haven’t seen a sizable portion are silent, less than 30 minutes long, or both. So, when I find one that is in that top group of films, I’m excited to see it. For the most part, I can expect that it’s going to be good. They aren’t always, and The Company of Wolves is sadly in the group that isn’t very good. I desperately wanted to like this and there’s a lot here to like. There is a serious problem with it that puts a pall over everything that it does, though. We’ll get there. It’s very depressing.
We start in the present day in the real world. A young girl named Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) is sleeping and dreams herself into a forest straight out of Hansel and Gretel. Her parents (David Warner and Tusse Silberg) and her sister Alice (Georgia Slowe) are there as well. Soon into the dream, Alice is run down and killed by wolves. With the family in mourning, Rosaleen goes to stay with her grandmother (Angela Lansbury). Grandma was planning on knitting a red shawl for Alice but decides instead to make it for Rosaleen. As she does, she tells her granddaughter a couple of stories.
