Flesh to Burn: “The Wicker Man” at 50

Alan Corley
Fanfare
Published in
10 min readMay 23, 2023

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StudioCanal (edit by author)

“Do sit down, Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent.”

Early in our relationship, I forced my boyfriend to watch both The Devils and The Wicker Man, just so he was informed on what he was getting himself into. Long story short, we’re still together, and he preferred The Wicker Man to The Devils (in his words: “it made…

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Usually writing about old movies — BA English & Drama — MPhil Film Studies