'The Wicker Man' gets his AARP card today, as the folk horror classic turns 50
The 1973 movie The Wicker Man helped kick off the subgenre known as "folk horror." The film, about a sinister pagan ritual on a remote Scottish island, has scared horror fans for five decades.
The influential horror movie The Wicker Man came out Dec. 6, 1973. It eventually inspired an entire subgenre known as "folk horror," including films such as 2019's acclaimed Midsommer.
But when it was first released, The Wicker Man was seen as an obscure cult classic – if it was even seen at all.
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