My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

When I heard this Ingmar Bergman film was classified as a horror film I didn’t believe it. Yet it is, reminding me of a psychological Edgar Allen Poe story but with that Bergman quality that pulls you with artful abandonment. It’s the story of man’s mind about to fall apart. It has a castle full of crazy neighbors and a wife consumed by her husband’s guilt and inner pain. Even the way the film opens with a passage stating this is a true story of a man disappearing reminds me of the Paranormal Activity movies. Bergman’s staple cast is here and doing their constant brilliance. It’s maybe a little slow for some people and I think it could have been spookier at times but this is a great experiment of the genre. Grade: B+
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