Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1968 • Sweden
The strangest and most disturbing of the films Ingmar Bergman shot on the island of Fårö, HOUR OF THE WOLF stars Max von Sydow as a haunted painter living in voluntary exile with his wife (Liv Ullmann). When the couple are invited to a nearby castle for dinner, things start to go wrong with a vengeance, as a coven of sinister aristocrats hastens the artist’s psychological deterioration. This gripping film is charged with a nightmarish power rare in the Bergman canon, and contains dreamlike effects that brilliantly underscore the tale’s horrific elements.
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Kuroneko
Directed by Kaneto Shindo • 1968 • Japan
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Night of the Living Dead
Directed by George A. Romero • 1968 • United States
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Spirits of the Dead
Directed by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vadim • 1968 • France, Italy
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