Hour of the Wolf (1968) aka Vargtimmen (CC 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 1.0) Ingmar Bergman Max von Sydow Liv Ullmann Gertrud Fridh Georg Rydeberg Erland Josephson Naima Wifstrand Ulf Johansson Gudrun Brost Bertil Anderberg Ingrid Thulin surreal hq
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- LanguageSwedish
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Hour of the Wolf
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.
Hour of the Wolf (1968) aka Vargtimmen, directed by Ingmar Bergman, Criterion remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Swedish theatrical mono and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063759/
Video encoded in two-pass 9.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : Swedish über-art film titan Ingmar Bergman frequently flirted with horror and the supernatural, but this is his only straight-up horror film, and it's a fucking trip. Shot in stark, stunning black and white by Sven Nykvist, the visuals are by turns beautiful, ominous, and terrifying, and the main character's descent into nightmarish madness is almost as disorienting for the viewer as it is for him. Mostly a psychological horror, but with folk horror overtones, and a keen sense of the grotesque, it has a fair bit of nudity and even a few neat trick effect shots, so if you think this is a dry, boring and slow art film, well, it's not, it's a disturbing, weird, surreal art film. Performances by the amazing Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann as the leads, as well as those of a bunch of other great Swedish actors, are impeccable. Yeah, kids, "elevated horror" is not something A24 invented.
Painter Johan Borg and his wife Alma live on a small island. Johan suffers from insomnia and strange, frightening visions, which he sketches, and he starts giving the recurring characters names, like the Birdman, the Insects, and the Meat Eaters. One day, an old woman stops by the house and tells Alma to read Johan's diary, which he keeps under his bed. Alma learns that Johan is haunted by visitations from strangers who may or may not be figments of his imagination, as well as by visions of his old lover Veronica, but also that Johan received a dinner invitation from a local aristocrat. The couple attend the dinner, where Johan is very uncomfortable, and the guests are bizarrely leering and inappropriate. One night, Alma stays awake with Johan, and he tells her of the hour of the wolf, when, according to folklore, most deaths and birts occur. He tells her of trauma from his childhood, and confesses to having killed a young boy in a random encounter, which shocks Alma. The couple receives another dinner invitation, but after Johan seemingly shoots Alma, he runs to the castle by himself, where he looks for Veronica, but encounters various nightmarish and demonic apparitions, and flees into the island's forest, where he's attacked by the demons. Later on, Alma tells the story of Johan's disapperance, and how she, too, could see the demonic apparitions attacking him.
This is a pretty great transfer, maybe a little bit too contrasty at times for a film shot on 60s stock, but it has great texture, nice fine detail, and shows off the wonderful cinematography. Mono track sounds good, I could have wished for a commentary track.
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 241 kb/s / 1 channel / Original Swedish theatrical mono / Swedish / *Default
Text #1 : VobSub / 7.4 kb/s / English
Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Alma's Confession
00:06:16.251 : The Island
00:10:22.455 : "An Immense Amount of Time"
00:17:33.344 : Two-hundred-sixteen-year-old visitor
00:20:18.217 : Johan's Diary
00:28:21.867 : Accounts and Expenses
00:31:17.709 : Dinner at the Baron's Castle
00:36:15.590 : "A Pleasant Diversion"
00:43:06.959 : Painting of Veronica Vogler
00:47:00.818 : "Hour of the Wolf"
00:51:46.770 : Johan's Confession
00:59:28.398 : Johan's Affair
01:05:16.496 : Looking for Veronica
01:09:33.461 : "You are Yourself"
01:15:01.539 : Lovers Reunited
01:20:05.634 : The Attack
01:25:44.973 : "So Many Questions"
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