Hour of the Wolf (1968)

IMDb plot summary: While vacationing on a remote Scandanavian island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, and George Rydeberg.

There's no doubt Ingmar Bergman was a talented filmmaker, but I tend to appreciate his films most when they land in a more concrete, less surreal place (The Virgin Spring and Autumn Sonata, for example). There are pieces of this that are compelling -- particularly some of the ending shots of the ghosts/demons/whatever -- but it's clearly trying to create an emotional atmosphere that largely gets lost on me.

How it entered my Flickchart:
Hour of the Wolf < Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
Hour of the Wolf > Running With Scissors
Hour of the Wolf < Holiday (1938)
Hour of the Wolf > Life with Father
Hour of the Wolf < Thank You for Smoking
Hour of the Wolf > The Birth of a Nation
Hour of the Wolf < Highlander
Hour of the Wolf > What Lies Beneath
Hour of the Wolf < The General
Hour of the Wolf > A Christmas Carol (2004)
Hour of the Wolf < Syrup
Final spot: #1971 out of 2957.