![]() Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) is the type of cop who’d bust a Wicker Man audience member for possession. The film, loosely adapting David Pinner’s novel Ritual, presents the movie’s audience - assumed to be horror buffs, occultists, and the midnight-movie crowd - with a protagonist they couldn’t possibly sympathize with less, and an antagonist who hides in plain sight until revealing an insidious rhetoric that, for new viewers, would echo much of what we hear today. The Ring poses as a murder mystery, The Babadook as a confrontation between a broken family and a supernatural entity, but in each case the endings complicate and confound our expectations of how such stories are meant to conclude.īut The Wicker Man, Robin Hardy’s 1973 horror film, is the trickiest of the lot. ![]() The Blair Witch Project is less about the witch than the project, and how frightening viewing life through a camera can make the world beyond the lens. Get Out rips the façade off a family of wealthy, West Wing liberals to reveal nightmarish cruelty and racism. ![]() ![]() The Wicker Man plays tricks on you, as many great horror movies do. ![]()
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