On the YouTube: SCTV's Ingmar Bergman Spoof
One from the vaults:
A favorite SCTV sketch of ours spoofed Ingmar Bergman's cinematic style to great effect.
Get past the slightly broad humor of the introduction—the framing mechanism for the spoof is the regular SCTV "Monster Chiller Horror Theater," for which "Whispers of the Wolf" by "Ingmar Burgman" is the night's selection—and get to the fantastic and incredibly observant homage.
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