Movie

Hour of the Wolf

1968 · 88 min

A slow, unsettling descent into a fractured mind, where reality and nightmare blur on a bleak island.

Tagline: The hour of the wolf is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is the deepest, when nightmares feel most real.
Overview: While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
How it feels: Dark, eerie, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Madness, isolation, obsession, identity
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: madness
isolation
obsession
identity
art
Places: single country house
wilderness
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild