Eerie Pageantry

‘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 […]

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