Part of: Shocktober 2024
WITH INTRO BY NEIL PHILIP, AUTHOR AND FOLKLORIST.
THE WICKER MAN• Robin Hardy • 1973 • 1h 28m
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
"It’s both deeply unsettling and consistently visually vibrant—a foundational work of folk horror that puts all other films about faith to absolute shame." - Chase Hutchinson
"Christopher Lee, who plays the lord of the island, thinks it's one of the finest films he's ever made -- and he's right." - Radio Times
"An offbeat masterpiece that reveals the dark heart of Britain through the perennial tension between social progress and the burden of the past." - CineVue