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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A dreamlike, adolescent gothic fable where folklore, predatory adults, and sexual awakening blur inside ornate storybook imagery—an especially close tonal companion to Neil Jordan’s fairy-tale nightmare.
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Why this pick
Its stark medieval landscape and childlike fairy-tale logic turn grief, superstition, and female vulnerability into something intimate, uncanny, and quietly threatening.
03
Why this pick
Though less overtly horrific, it shares the experience of a young girl filtering fear and adult mystery through a porous, poetic imagination and haunting rural imagery.
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Why this pick
A lavish, darkly sensual anthology of old folk stories, alive with monstrous transformations, dangerous desire, and tactile fairy-tale worlds that refuse Disney-like comfort.
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Why this pick
This black-and-white Estonian folk-horror romance has the same instinct for earthy superstition, shape-shifting strangeness, and fable-like encounters between desire and danger.
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01 / THE STORY
In the present day, a young girl named Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) dreams that she lives in a fairytale forest during the late 18th century with her parents (Tusse Silberg and David Warner (actor)) and sister (Georgia Slowe), but one day her sister is killed by wolves. While her parents are mourning, Rosaleen goes to stay the night with her grandmother (Angela Lansbury), who knits a bright red shawl for her granddaughter to wear. The superstitious old woman gives Rosaleen an ominous warning, to beware men whose eyebrows meet. Rosaleen returns to her village, but finds that she must deal with the advances of an amorous boy (Shane Johnstone). Rosaleen and the boy take a walk through the forest, but the boy discovers that the village's cattle have come under attack from a wolf. The villagers set out to hunt the wolf, but once caught and killed, the wolf's corpse transforms into that of a human being.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
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