Film· 1973· Horror

The Wicker Man

by Robin Hardy

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Midsommar

Film · 2019

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Ari Aster acknowledged The Wicker Man as the obvious ancestor of Midsommar: outsiders invited to a pagan community's sunlit summer festival that ends in a burning sacrifice.

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The Wicker Man

The plot centres on the visit of a police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie, to the fictional, isolated Scottish island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism.