Hour of the wolf

For other uses, see Hour of the Wolf (disambiguation).

The hour of the wolf is the hour between night and dawn during which the wolf is said to lurk outside people's doors (Between 3 and 5 AM).^{[citation needed]}

In popular culture

The marketing tagline for a 1968 Ingmar Bergman horror film entitled Hour of the Wolf reads:

"The Hour of the Wolf is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their deepest fear, when ghosts and demons are most powerful. The Hour of the Wolf is also the hour when most children are born."

In an episode of the science fiction television show Babylon 5 entitled "The Hour of the Wolf", Commander Susan Ivanova says:

"Have you ever heard of the hour of the wolf? ... It's the time between 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning. You can't sleep, and all you can see is the troubles and the problems and the ways that your life should've gone but didn't. All you can hear is the sound of your own heart."

The Crust Punk / D-beat band Wolfbrigade have released in 2008 an album called Comalive, and his first song's name is The Hour of The Wolf.

It is also the title of the ongoing science fiction radio program hosted by Jim Freund named after Ingmar Bergman's movie.

Featured in the Oingo Boingo song No One Lives Forever

"Let’s have a party there’s a full moon in the sky It’s the hour of the wolf and I don’t wanna die"

Ave Maris Stella

The Hour of the Wolf, "the time of utter suspension when nocturnal sounds have ceased and those of day not yet begun", begins and concludes Ave Maris Stella (Hail, star of the sea), a 1975 composition for chamber ensemble by the English composer Peter Maxwell Davies. Davies exploits the tension between the moment of birth and of death in the piece by concluding with "a searing cry".

The Hassles

"Hour of the Wolf" is the title track of a 1969 album by The Hassles. Since the band failed to tour in the U.S., little air time was given to the group by the typical AM broadcast stations.^{[citation needed]} The twelve-minute song also featured members of the group howling like wolves, significantly reducing the chance of it being played on the radio. In the underground rock culture, the title song was a favorite of Clyde Clifford, the famous DJ and host of Beaker Street for KAAY, the "Mighty 1090" of Little Rock, Arkansas.^{[citation needed]}

Grandfather Clock

Chicago doom-punk trio Grandfather Clock have a song titled "Hour of the Wolf" on their 2011 Tarot EP. The song's lyrics are loosely connected to the plot of Ingmar Bergman's film.^{[citation needed]}

Steppenwolf

Hour of the Wolf is also the name of a 1975 album by Steppenwolf.

See also

• Witching hour