And this week's Friday night movie has been... The Wicker Man!
It's Halloween night so what better way to see out this year's clutch of horror movies than to go on hard mode?
In a way this movie surprised me: I was expecting to have some dread, the building of tension and Christopher Lee at his freakish best. Certainly I did get that but what I wasn't expecting was some musical numbers. And some bright colours. And some truly bizarre behaviour.
I have to wonder: has time been kind to this movie? True we know how it's going to end (even though it still hits like a truck) and somehow the movie comes across as more comical than threatening. Or maybe this inspired a line of imitators so long that the original's power has faded
I also found myself wondering: is this a movie about being threatened by a cult? Because one may come away with the impression that the cult looks appealing...
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