Countdown to Hallowe'en 24: Bergman's Hour of the Wolf

Still from Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen) © United Artists/MGM. Image Source: Photobucket.

My October 4th post was devoted to the witching hour, also called the 'hour of the wolf.' This is the time between night and dawn - 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. - when wolves are said to lurk outside people's houses in wild areas. Below the jump, one of renowned Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's most famous and frightening films, The Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen – 1968), a surreal piece about a secretive artist who keeps waking up in the middle of the night, and who disappears after several disturbing run-ins with his strange, aristocratic patrons.

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