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1973’s The Wicker Man is both a folk horror, one of the finest of its kind; and a cosmic joke about the vanities of faith as the Summerisle establishment endeavors to manipulate the pagan populace and get “down with the kids”—“He’s [God] dead. He can’t complain; he had his chance and in modern parlance, he ‘blew it.’”.
The Wicker Man is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Christopher Lee.The screenplay is by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, and Paul Giovanni composed the film score.
Cowboys for Christ by Robin Hardy (Luath, 2006; later editions called The Wicker Tree) Novel along the same sorts of lines as The Wicker Man, but this isn't a sequel. Made into the film The Wicker Tree (q.v.). The Wicker Man sequel screenplay by Anthony Shaffer This is Shaffer's direct sequel to the original movie.
Jul 4, 2016 · Come, it is time to keep your appointment with Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man. Forty years old, the film burns brighter than ever across the scarred terrain of British Cinema. Famously championed by Cinefantastique stateside, as far back as 1977, as “the Citizen Kane of horror”, it took longer to ignite at home, but nowadays regularly ranks high in best film polls, with its star ...
Dec 30, 2023 · "The Wicker Man is many things," says David Bramwell, who created the Sing-a-long-a-Wicker Man film nights in 2009, and claims to have seen the film more than 150 times.
Jun 23, 2023 · The apex of folk horror is back. Fifty years after its first release, Robin Hardy's seminal The Wicker Man is still the first movie that springs to mind at mere mention of this sub-genre, and for good reason: no film since has bettered the weird, ritualistic verve of what we call folk horror, creating many of the genre's distinct tropes in the process.
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Film Review: The Wicker Man (1973) - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Sergeant Howie travels to the remote island of Summerisle to investigate a missing child. He finds the island's inhabitants hold pagan beliefs and a free attitude towards sexuality, contrasting with his devout Christianity.
