Hooptober 8.0 – The Wicker Man (1973)

Being Film #16 for Hooptober 2021

You’d think after so many years of being in the public consciousness as well as the insane meme-machine that is the 2006 remake with Nicolas Cage that I would know what I was in for with The Wicker Man. Ladies and gentlemen…I was not. What director Robin hardy and writer Anthony Shaffer have crafted is a bright spectacle that slowly devolves from oddity to horror. Even knowing the ending you don’t really see it coming, and I came away really understanding why the film has been held aloft as one of the finest British horror films of all time.

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