Director Neil Jordan's imaginative visual flair is put to good use in this dark and wild adaptation of author Angela Carter's re-interpretation of the Little Red Riding Hood fairytale.

When Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson), a young teenage girl, goes to stay with her Granny (Angela Lansbury) following the strange death of her sister, she’s regaled with bizarre stories and cautionary tales of handsome yet heavily eye-browed men and spouses who disappear during full moons. When she sleeps she enters a nightmarish yet alluring dream world populated by werewolves, and her magical encounters become ever more fantastic as they give expression to her own burgeoning sexuality. Meanwhile, rumours start to grow that a real-life wolf has began stalking the dark forest that edges onto Rosaleen's home.

Though marketed as a horror film upon its initial release, this is a tale that defies easy categorisation. Drawing on everything from German Expressionism to early Disney, this is a film that builds its own world on the fault line between terror and whimsy. An intensely visual experience, it contained no real special effects (witness the famous transformation scenes!) and the result is an utterly brilliant and visceral mediation on folklore, sexuality, and humankind's relationship with the animal world.

We’re getting a new kitchen in December

Throughout December the builders will be in to fit our new kitchen. We will still have a Soups and Sharing Platters menu and the Café/Bar will be open as usual. Find out more here, including details of the schedule of work. Thank you for your patience in advance.

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