The Wicker Man

2023 - 12 - 6

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The Wicker Man at 50: A Tale of Cults and Cuts (Home — Crooked Marquee)

For a certain (younger) generation, The Wicker Man is primarily associated with the gloriously meme-friendly image of Nicolas Cage, regaling us with one his ...

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Burning effigies for the Man | Esmé Partridge | The Critic Magazine (The Critic Magazine)

This article is taken from the December-January 2024 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we're offering five issues ...

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - The World of The Wicker Man - Seven things ... (BBC News)

Behind the scenes secrets from the film dubbed 'the Citizen Kane of horror movies'.

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The Wicker Man at 50: The consequence of cultural ignorance (GamesRadar+)

On its 50th anniversary, we remember The Wicker Man as a perfect example of cultural ignorance, a theme that has been seen in the horror genre ever since.

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'The Wicker Man' gets his AARP card today, as the folk horror classic ... (NPR)

The 1973 movie The Wicker Man helped kick off the subgenre known as "folk horror." The film, about a sinister pagan ritual on a remote Scottish island, ...

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Folk horror classic 'The Wicker Man' turns 50 : NPR (PiPaNews)

The influential horror film The Wicked Man It came out on December 6, 1973. It eventually inspired an entire subgenre called “horror folk,” including films ...

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'The Wicker Man' Review: Still One of Horror's Greatest ... (Collider.com)

The film tackles the theme of religion, setting up a conflict between Christianity and paganism, and exploring the merits and pitfalls of both. The cast of The ...

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