The Wicker Man

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Vitor O The movie that arguably helped to start the folk horror movie the most, The Wicker Man is an excellent tale about the clash between a Christian cop searching for the missing of a child and a scottish community that believed in the old gods. This movie is excellent in its entirety. However, the ending will send chills down your spine. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/20/25 Full Review Thomas S The golden standard when it comes to folk horror. Plain and simple. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/04/25 Full Review Joana L Protagonist is an unlikable Bible-thumper but the unintentionally hilarious setting makes it fun to watch Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/04/25 Full Review Thomas S Excellent. What you’d expect a community stuck away in Nordic and Ancient Scots folklore Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/03/25 Full Review Tyler B Finally, I can understand a secular society and the so told revolutionary effects on that particular social evolutionary decline. All the while questioning one's morals within. From now until forever, I shall always be searching for the disappearance of Ruin Morissette. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/03/25 Full Review Kyle M The surrounding notoriety of “The Wicker Man” remade in 2006 starring Nicolas Cage effectively resurrected the story under piqued attention, which led to having the signature twist unveiled prematurely. 2006’s director Neil LaBute seemingly sought in cashing on the genre’s firmer foundations being reworked to further rust without much attributive originality to guarantee impressionable significance beyond the given reputation’s negative reception. It ideally been proven to work in going for the unfamiliar angle that supposedly modernizes how it was done previously, not for the better by the way. Robin Hardy’s directorial passion has gotten connected to the 1973 cultural take on pagan horror with an edgier grit ethically driven through an investigative narrative that’s been brewing the somewhat chills as the twists and turns been going back and forth, spiked by the decade’s stark saturation for an unsettling mixture. It unfortunately got affected by its own legacy, like most horror tales unable to separate from having an intimidating, timeless impact but rather as formulaic feats to self-destruct its fearful intentions. Though a notion been previously assured that such knowledge wouldn’t change the climatically built effect, if only it wasn’t so obvious that is, as well it doesn’t change the profound disturbance at the end. So which leaves performative deliverance in carrying the film besides its structural intelligence, exceptionally excelled by Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee with mesmerizing convictions over influential religious reliefs they had to embrace. Watching the original and remake back-and-forth easily declare a winner in the double feature when the latter’s approach showed frivolous, immature execution that visually parodies the circumstantially weighted gravity. The only provocative effect is to see the original if haven’t done so, to actually see how comparably bad and how much the remake lacks as it only replays the scenic direction in conversationally coerced matters that made the outing much lower than immediate predictability with misled “edge”. Because of that, it apparently lost the pull into welcomed slumber, contrast to the diegetic yearn. Even though there isn’t much enthusiasm towards the British film due to how disturbing it anchored, there’s no need to argue that the remake is soulless after witnessing what unfolded prior – unless star power actually becomes the appealing factor in terms of familiarity. Though with zero interest in ever seeing it nor any direct connections besides associated spirituality, Ari Aster’s “Midsommar” did, however, came to mind upon watching the traditional celebrations unfolded in the 1973 original, especially the tactics it’s characteristically used. Even without seeing it, just from a glance and narrative familiarity actually show true modernization of the story Robin Hardy directed and became one of the genre’s cherished influences to inspire effective frights. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/01/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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