This movie had so many WTF kind of moments I'm going to have to buy it just to convince myself it's not a hallucination. It's so crazy it might actually be genius. A young girl (Sarah Patterson) dreams of a different life, where she is a peasant girl named Rosaleen. Life in their village is very hard, as they are plagued with wolves. After Rosaleen's sister Alice (Georgia Slowe) falls prey to the beasts, Rosaleen starts spending more time with her Granny (Angela Lansbury), who lives in the woods. Granny is full of stories and cautionary tales of wolves that are only furry on the inside.
There are more unintentionally terrifying moments in this movie than on purpose. Every transformation, especially the one by Stephen Rea, is pure insanity sauce. Then there are the life-sized dolls that chase Alice through the woods, some kid buying roofies from General Zod, and tiny silver babies hatching from bird eggs.
If this is how Neil Jordan does werewolves, I can't wait to see his vampires in Byzantium.
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