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List Price: $24.98Amazon.com's Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.49 (10%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0027616911353
Format: Dolby, Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Special Edition, NTSC
Label: MGM
Manufacturer: MGM
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 57988
Studio: MGM
Theatrical Release Date: April 09, 1968
Editorial Review:
Description:
The delicate, dangerous line between genius and insanity is brilliantly plumbed in this haunting film from Ingmar Bergman that's 'a dazzling flow of surrealism, expressionism and full-blooded Gothic horror' (The Observer). Haunted by demons past and present, artist Johan Borg (Max von Sydow) fights a losing battle to retain his sanity and maintain his artistic prowess. His wife Alma (Liv Ullmann), desperate to help him, finds herself starting to share his hallucinations. But as Johan's mind continues to unravel, Alma is forced to choose between her love and her life.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good film
Vargtimmen (Hour Of The Wolf), a 1968 film by Ingmar Bergman, proves the nostrum that even lesser work by a great artist, surpasses the better work of lesser artists, for Bergman can get more from the prosaic, or even nothing, than almost any other director. Almost all the creepiness that a viewer feels watching this film comes from scenes, that in other circumstances, would be banal, even dull. The whole film is a series of small moments, incomplete scenes that fade out, and some blackout sketches, ... Read More
Rating:  - A deconstruction of the classic horror film--and still creepy!
In many an interview, Bergman remarked that he wanted to keep pushing the envelope in his film-making, trying new techniques, new ideas, new modes of expression. "Personae" is perhaps his best-known experiment. But "Hour of the Wolf" ought to rank up there as well, although it's not typically given the credit for experimental film it deserves.
The beauty of "Hour" is that on the surface it's a gothic thriller that genuinely puts the viewer on seat's edge with its sheer creepiness. Are ... Read More
Rating: - INGMAR BERGMAN, OPUS 28
***1/2 1968. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. A painter and his wife who live on an island near the Swedish coast start to see strange people around them. Little by little, the artist loses his grip on reality. Fascinating horror film by the Swedish master who tells us one more time the Dracula myth. But Bergman is nevertheless Bergman and the story can be understood on several levels. Think for instance about the baron's castle, and its circumvolutions, which strangely appears like the double ... Read More
Rating: - The Not So Innocents. DVD Features Below.
What is the hour of the wolf? "It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are more real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fear, when ghosts and demons are most powerful. The Hour of the Wolf is also the hour when most children are born." This is one of the conversations artist Johan Borg has with his wife Alma by candlelight in their home on the windy deserted island whose only neighbors are a family of perverted ghosts living in a castle. ... Read More
Rating:  - Someone has to say it
Well, I guess Hour of the Wolf must be a work of genius, since it's directed by Bergman and stars Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. But honestly, this is probably the most depressing movie ever made. It's supposedly a gothic horror film, but there's no suspense, only horrific images. An artist and his wife spend a summer on an island where he is haunted by his memories. Told in flashback through the wife's recollections and the man's diary. The plot depends upon the wife's undying love and affection for the ... Read More
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