Watching: Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
I'll be reviewing films I watched (like I do on my letterboxd occasionally) but I primarily want to share some pretty screenshots. Around 2001 I saw the trailer for Brotherhood of the Wolf and being a child who was very much smitten with cool martial arts and action I asked my parents to see it. They deemed the movie too scary and violent and chose not to let me watch. I'd seen Alien, Species, Jaws, and Pitch Black by that point but it is likely that child me would have found this film tedious to sit through. It's slow and luscious in parts and quite an expansive story. Just as well I watched the film 20 years later. In a lot of ways Brotherhood of the Wolf is very much its time period- it's a mashup of period piece, fantasy, and martial arts with the lusciousness of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Two men, a knighted naturalist and his Iroquois companion, arrive in the province of Gevaudan with orders from the king t...