Review of Hour of the Wolf (1968) by Christopher M — 03 Mar 2007
This totally strange, and very disturbing, "horror" film by Ingmar Bergman plays out much like an Edgar Allan Poe tale (that's a good thing, by the way). There's just something about a story set on an isolated island that is inherently scary, so that helps - but besides that this movie really is very scary (beautiful at the same time), just not in any obvious way.
The utterly dark world Bergman creates places us right in there with the characters played Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann as they face a series of strange encounters with a group of people (ostensibly human) who live in a sprawling, shadowy mansion on the other side of the island.
The work of both actors is phenomenal, and the actors playing the antagonists are all very good at being subtly very frightening. Definitely worth checking out.
This review of Hour of the Wolf (1968) was written by Christopher M on 03 Mar 2007.
Hour of the Wolf has generally received very positive reviews.
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