Don Driver – AARON LISTER

Don Driver, Screen (1985)

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In Nicolas Roeg’s Gothic horror film Don’t Look Now (1973), a grief-stricken father mourning the death of his young daughter is haunted by a figure in a bright red jacket. While restoring a medieval church in Venice, he is tortured by flashbacks of his daughter’s drowning, eventually laying down his tools to pursue the red […]

Eerie Pageantry

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‘Don’t you see,’ implores Sergeant Neil Howie as he is led to the sacrificial bonfire in The Wicker Man (dir. Robin Hardy, 1973), ‘that killing me is not going to bring back your apples?’. In this classic folk horror film, the modern worldview clashes violently with fertility rituals, human sacrifice, and ancient superstitions. Eerie Pageantry […]