Impeccably conceived and executed, "Hour of the Wolf" is a thing of cinematic perfection. What is this nightmare called love?

| Original Score: FIVE STARS | Sep 30, 2023

A symbol-laden masterwork of mood.

| Jun 27, 2023

Deserves to be counted as top-tier Bergman, or at least near the top of the second tier.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 28, 2020

It flows so beautifully and once you kind of just give in to the madness it's all go.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 26, 2020

Bergman experiments with psychological terror to construct a sharp thesis on adultery, jealousy, and the fears that constitute identity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 16, 2020

It cannot be emphasized strongly enough that what Bergman has done here structurally is a revolutionary achievement.

| Jan 30, 2020

...the movie reveals Liv Ullmann as a unique perpetrator of humanistic depth and female presence.

| Jun 17, 2019

Ingmar Bergman's only horror film is a strangely personal, realistic, yet voyeuristic and metafictional-type experience.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2019

Bergman's doom-ridden follow-up to Persona reaches out its cold ancient mariner's grasp to stop one in one's tracks.

| Jul 11, 2018

Bergman shakes his head and intuitive horrors cascade out, all he has to do is collect image after fulminating image

| Oct 26, 2009

Some of the images, such as one of a young boy staring at Von Sydow as he's fishing, will haunt you long afterwards.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 11, 2007

One of the typical bleak psychological dramas of Ingmar Bergman.

| Original Score: A | Aug 9, 2007

Only partly successful.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2007

This Bergman discourse on the nature of art and the artist's relation to society is shrouded in the trappings of gothic horror.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2006

A brilliant Gothic fantasy.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 31, 2005

Hour of the Wolf is not one of Bergman's great films but it is unthinkable for anyone seriously interested in movies not to see it.

| May 9, 2005

If we allow the images to slip past the gates of logic and enter the deeper levels of our mind, and if we accept Bergman's horror story instead of questioning it, Hour of the Wolf works magnificently.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

A must for fans of horror and of Bergman. So good it makes you wish he had dabbled in the genre that bit more often.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2004

existential dread is palpable

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 7, 2004