Year: 1973
Country: UK
Subgenre: Folk/Pagan Horror
Runtime: 88 min. (theatrical)/99 min. (extended)/94 min (final edit)
Director: Robin Hardy
The last decade has seen the release of a large number of folk horror films (especially if you factor in films with folk themes/traditional monsters from Asia), but the genre as arguably been around since the 1950's (longer if you consider Benjamin Christensen's Häxan, which was released in 1922, a folk horror film). As good as many of them are (and films like The Ritual and The Witch are pretty dang good), none of them have surpassed The Wicker Man in my opinion. I won't go into the film, as it's really impossible to describe it in any way without including spoilers (for anyone who hasn't seen it yet). Let's just say that for a film that mostly takes place is bright sunlight, it's one of most horrifying films out there, and scary as hell! In fact, I would say that this is, hands down, the scariest film that Christopher Lee ever acted in. Recent films Midsommar (Ari Aster) and Apostle (Gareth Evans) are basically remakes of this one.
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