Greetings gentle readers and welcome to another installment of the Sunday Morning Movie. Today it’s a high-brow horror piece from Bergman, The Hour of the Wolf :

https://youtu.be/7XarTsIOxms?si=G9VWJafh3uRAAU5J

and next week’s film, The Witch Hunt ,

Forfølgelsen (1981)

Reviews of The Hour of the Wolf :

RogerEbert.com says:

A great deal of the action takes place halfway between midnight and dawn — the hour, Scott Fitzgerald said, which is the dark night of the soul. In a brief note, Bergman calls this the “Hour of the Wolf,” and explains: “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.…