anyway, masks are fucking scary is the basic premise of TCM and TWM
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, phew, was really getting worried. Now I can just say: TOO LOW.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Whoomp there it is.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/124/350632146_e3ee38fc79_b.jpg
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Bought this just as videos were hitting the market:
http://cdn3.iofferphoto.com/img/item/117/096/565/o_cBhXauvv57xfuye.jpg
Lays out the film frame by frame, a real novelty at the time.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
La Lechera placed on suicide watch
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
I love every single last thing about this movie! You can't make me change my mind. #1 #1 #1.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
jjjusten placed on MURDER WATCH
I pored over that Anobile book in high school.
at least The Wicker Man is better than The Shining.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
i dont think i can really accurately appraise TWM because that room to room sexytime suddenly its a musical thing just absolutely ruins the movie for me, and i have never been able to get past that.
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Wicker Man rules, fuck y'all
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
my favourite bit in wicker man is the ritual with the swords. sheer panic!
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Man I don't think I voted for a single one of these top 10s so far except maybe Suspiria. TCM, TWM, and NOTLD I found unexceptional and Psycho I haven't seen since I was like 11 and Carrie I haven't seen.
― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
See Carrie! See it right now!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
in my mind, all of the UK outside of London is basically the wicker man + the prisoner
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
are people just in love with the basic premise + twist ending of TWM? from a technical standpoint it seems completely unremarkable, which is not the case with the rest of the top 10.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
Now that both are revealed, yes, I was secretly rooting for THE WICKER MAN to make the top five and for PSYCHO to land just outside. For a good portion of early polling, PSYCHO was pretty far out front in the lead for overall #1 (this was, of course, back when POSSESSION was also in the top 10). Morbs' ballot at the end pushed PSYCHO back up to #5 and TWM down to #6.
My allegiance here was mostly because I thought TWM would make for a really cool movie to have this high up, but comments ITT have disillusioned me a tad.
Nonetheless, I have always thought TWM to be a far more interesting take on the intersection of horror and religion than THE EXORCIST.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
― Simon H., Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^^
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
like Psycho, Carrie, Suspiria, TCM - all of these have amazing formal things going on with in the frame. TWM is pretty by-the-numbers.
TCM, TWM, and NOTLD I found unexceptional
I am not going to buy your shirt anymore, Stevie D.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
Failure to appreciate the confluence of music, death, life, sex, religion, history, agricultural societies, and nature is a pretty big failure -- what else is there?! Also, I think the nudity in this movie is very natural and well done.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
Story time: When I was but a wee lad I saw part of a film on late-night "Friday Nite Horror"-type TV that scarred me. It had a weird authenticity and strange gleefulness as villagers sang and marched and then burned this man alive. For many years I wondered if it was some sort of terrible dream I'd had. Many years later, still in pre-internet, small-town Iowa, I see the movie Shallow Grave and see that very same horrifying scene playing on a TV in the background of one of the scenes. Breathless, I check the closing credits for the films title. Many years after that, I find myself in Scotland looking at the remains of the Wicker Man's feet.
THE END.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
I like TWM and all, but it is not a better movie than Psycho or TCM.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
I disliked the wicker man. Haven't seen the remake but I'd give it a chance.
― Jeff, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
I have a picture of Thnig standing behind the bar that was used for the inside shots of the Green Man but I won't embarrass him.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
That was me in the above shot btw.
from a technical standpoint it seems completely unremarkable, which is not the case with the rest of the top 10.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 24, 2012 2:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'd think you'd have figured out by now that pretty much no one cares about the technical standpoint as much as you do
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't seen the remake but I'd give it a chance.
you may want to adjust yr expectations before viewing
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
personally i could give a fuck about the technical standpoint
Morbs' ballot at the end pushed PSYCHO back up to #5 and TWM down to #6.
But, ah, that is not how they are listed.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
huh, that's one of my favorite parts. i love stylization, unreality and sudden textural shifts though. think you're more attracted to consistent realism?
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
You know what's even better? PRINCE OF DARKNESS, which nobody but me voted for. ;_;
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
My point is that Mr. Hal Jam's ballot (which was slipped in even after yours) changed them back, Morbs. So yay!
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
STILL TALKING ABOUT WICKER MAN In many (most) horror movies, the person who has sex dies. In TWM, sex could have saved our protagonist's life. That's a positive message about sex that you just don't see in a lot of movies, much less horror movies.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Walking around the locations in Scotland, man, it feels like this thing really happened. They sang and danced and killed people. There's just nothing else like the Wicker Man.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
In TWM, sex could have saved our protagonist's life.
ANOTHER reason this movie freaks my shit out.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
this is true to some extent, but i think misses the point. did you see those stills that pillbox put together? whether by accident or by careful cinematic craft, it's wall-to-wall with striking, evocative images. the photography, editing and narrative construction are often rather drab, but in a way that suits the fuddy-duddy protagonist and makes the slow accumulation of real weirdness all the more unsettling.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
regret voting.
The Wicker Man is extra special to heathens, so big zurprize.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
blows my mind that there are people who actually get freaked out by TWM
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
wait, so Rosemary's Baby isn't even going to place?
― Chris S, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
There's already two Polanski movies in the results, right?
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
i approve of everything that's in the Top 10 so far (even though i didn't vote for suspiria, which i actually kind of regret).
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
Christopher Lee is AWESOME in Wicker Man. And his singing voice is dope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcB39PeoZyY&feature=BFa&list=PL0ABE85C6B0F09C0D
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
Can it. Your ballot was about .00004 points of deviation from the norm on this one.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
I swear I didn't paste in Man of "La Macha".
Try again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcB39PeoZyY
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Let's not forget the GENIUS OF INGRID PITT (this is from a different movie but I had to find a good one without nudity)
http://cache2.artprintimages.com/lrg/30/3005/Y6GBF00Z.jpg
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
How can all you people keep up in this thread? At least with terrible kneejerk tasks at work to do.
TWM at the #2 here, so fuck the haters.
In 2006 me and friends decided to do a vacation in Kerry, of all places, the rather rural and remote south-west region of Ireland (yeah, not Scotland, but nm). Just four days of cruising around the forlorn countryside while listening to Badalamenti, finding sheep bones at every possibility, rummaging through derelict houses, nearly getting in fistfights with strange Irishmen not really keen on meeting tourists, getting invited to 65th birthdays of local frolicking innkeepers with adolescent nieces in white dresses and avoiding the creepiest most fucked up slasher-friendly camping ground this side of the Atlantic (called The Peacock, eerie stuff, managed by Dutchmen, be warned).
About half a year later we watched The Wicker Man entirely by chance for the first time (it's got basically 0 reputation here in Germany, doesn't get shown on TV etc.) and suddenly everything made sense.
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
I'd better bookmark this thread, there's gonna be like 800 flippin' posts by the time I bike home.
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
Can't remember the thread, but there was a good discussion of religion in The Wicker Man vs. The Exorcist in one of them.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
"Bates? Baits?"
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link