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- HBO's The Third Day starts with a familiar premise, but avoids becoming a copy of folk horror classic, The Wicker Man, with some interesting twists and intriguing characters. As both employ realism to evoke horror and share similar dark and brooding atmospheres, it would have been easy for The Third Day to fall into The Wicker Man trap.
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Sep 10, 2020 · HBO’s new miniseries “The Third Day” sucks you into its tale of a British cult by ways small and massive—you instantly feel for the anguish of its impulsive, naive outsiders, played by Jude Law and later by Naomie Harris. But they’re merely the point-of-view for an overwhelming landscape that seems built from sinister secrets, a ...
Sep 14, 2020 · Yet for all its familiarity, The Third Day, an eerily beautiful psychological thriller co-produced by HBO and Sky UK that will premiere Sept. 14 on HBO, rarely comes across as derivative.
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Aug 22, 2023 · Otherworldly and marvellously disorientating, its legacy may be airtight, but The Wicker Man was surprisingly conceived from less rewarding beginnings, following numerous inner squabbles, a meagre budget, lost edits, issues with its set and an unhappy cast.
Sep 14, 2020 · A grief-stricken man named Sam (played by HBO’s former Young Pope, Jude Law) is making his way through a forested area somewhere in the United Kingdom when he saves a mysterious girl from...
Sep 20, 2020 · Much of the terror of The Third Day and folk horror storytelling comes from the mundanity of the surroundings. In The Wicker Man, it’s a beautiful, quaint village that could be in any...
Sep 15, 2020 · Though this origin story for Osea as told in The Third Day is all true, the real-life island is very different from the Wicker Man-like isle seen in the HBO show. Though it is true that the...
