Oh sir, I do think that you can be made a fool indefinitely #Monsterdon
You'd think Liberace there could afford some matching sideburns #monsterdon #thewickerman1973
the islanders constantly smirking while they fuck with the cop just cracks me up
It's a very large hare they found in that grave.
Gardners book had an introduction by Margaret Murray, an anthropologist and historian who got a lot of flack for publishing a book that claimed that the religion of a female goddess prevailed from ancient times in the UK and was still alive.
Sir you can't just go flinging dead hares at people. #monsterdon
Christopher Lee's smile is just so damn unnerving
Strangely on-brand that I bought fruit as a snack tonight
Oh, I think you can be made a fool indefinitely
#monsterdon
@cargot_robbie I think Rowan Morrison died falling from a coconut tree #monsterdon
#Monsterdon
Bullwinkle: Watch me pull this rabbit out of a grave.
Lord Summerisle: It's a hare, actually.
#Monsterdon as an acne scarred artisan i really felt that read
Oh what a harey situation for pc Tightass #Monsterdon
Well, can't say he wasn't warned about that one. #Monsterdon
Is that a wig mister Lord Summerisle? Or was Christopher Lee's hair just odd when he was young.
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
the gravekeeper looks familiar, who is he? #monsterdon
honest to got it has taken me like five whole minutes to recognize this cool pagan dude is christopher lee
I'm going to tell everyone this movie is about Watership Down.
Wait, the fancy new fruit cultivars thing feels like we're SF adjacent. Which is on-brand for monsterdon.
@wohali@octodon.social that air of total authority while talking the most outrageous and incorrect bollocks #monsterdon
@strangefour Sgt. Howie is made strictly from aftskin #monsterdon
torn between christopher lee's beautiful sparkling eyes and christopher lee's terrible wig
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan1973
"And to appease it when necessary" *COUGH* careful there Chris. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
Gerald Gardner after which Gardenerian witchcraft is named published Witchcraft Today in 1954 in which he claimed to have been initiated into a coven of witches.
#monsterdon Pagan are free spirited but very delusional and wild for my taste.
Victorians rebuilding an idealized, self-referential version of an ancient religion they still know little about is very much on brand, yeah. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon I guess you can't screenshot prime video on mac, poo.
HEY MA THE SCOTTISH PALM TREES AGAIN #Monsterdon
@Taweret I'm all in. Lead me Christopher Lee!
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I mean, I say young. He's 51 here. And his voice feels a lot less deep. I imagine massive amounts of cigarettes and whisky turned it into what it eventually became. #Monsterdon
@Zerofactorial probably what he did, too. #monsterdon
And then in the very next scene the records office lady denies Rowan ever existed. I think this town needs to get its story straight. #Monsterdon
@chirpbirb I think that is coming up fairly soon
Suddenly this is giving me Houses of the Holy vibes!
#monsterdon
the girls dancing around the campfire naked is what i imagine happens at sleepovers
@brooke i like how it's all some rich guy's sociology experiment rather than actual leftover old religion
Looks like Risa #monsterdon #thewickerman1973
"He had his chance" πππ
I feel this cop is a distillation of all the previous fascist cops we saw at #monsterdon. We have been prepared for this moment
What episode of Doctor Who was this?
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
OK. Is this entire movie a troll on the dickhead. Because if it wasn't meant to be, it seems to be an added bonus. They are all messing with him. #Monsterdon
That's what Saruman looked like when he was young dude #monsterdon
Much too dangerous for them to jump thru fire with their clothes on #monsterdon
So I was 10 when this came out. I guess I see why I never saw it in the theater π #Monsterdon
his lordship sure does have a lot of crap in his house.
#monsterdon
βNaturally. Itβs much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on.β
ππ
Fantastic fireplace mantle
#Monsterdon if your weekend fires aren't this lit, you're doing it wrong
@srol At some level my mind refuses to accept that this is Christopher Lee
i was not prepared for Christopher Lee with fluffy 70s hair and sideburns #Monsterdon
"the warm Gulf Stream..."
Oh my dude, let me tell you about the 21st Century.....your century fucked us over!
@strangefour 8====D #monsterdon
#monsterdon His words not mine btw
"Here the old gods aren't dead."
Extended cut has a brief scene with the town doctor, who states definitively that Rowan was burned to death. #Monsterdon
"shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent" IF you know what I mean
AND I think you do
#monsterdon "have these children never heard of Jesus?"
What the fuck?
MOVIE WHAT NO! I WAS LOOKING AWAY! You can't do this every two minutes to me. I can't screen cap everything.
Kind of a gross alchemy shop. But effectively shocking.
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
"Religious with ruined churches" Because there is only one religion...
Something else in the same vein as The Wicker Man was Harvest Home. I believe a TV three-part mini series where a town in rural America looks sort of Amish on the surface has a fertility cult hiding in the background. Bette Davis was the cult's matriarch #Monsterdon
Nekked #monsterdon
Sergeant, that is not a bonfire. That is a campfire.
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
ooh, naked ritual!
I've never seen Christopher Lee so young before. Also without a cape. #Monsterdon
"But they're NAKED!"
...Howie. C'mon. >_> #Monsterdon
I'm kind of hyperfocused on the squeaky sound the dickhead's shoes make when he walks. I wonder if it's loud on purpose.
#Monsterdon
#Monsterdon oh dang i forgot to pick up some pickled whole lambs
"We don't commit murder out here."
We simply release the soul from the body, it's TOTALLY different! #Monsterdon
Having a Spinal Tap moment here
#Monsterdon "But they are naked!"
He really *IS* a detective.
"Much too dangerous to jump through fires with your clothes on!" Christopher Lee makes a good point!
#monsterdon
how do you see a bunch of people naked and jumping over a fire in a birth ritual and think that's a bad thing, that's just like one of the clearest signs things are going alright in the world you could have. #monsterdon
So, some context for this movie. In the 1950s and sistiess there was a cultural revival of withcraft in the English speaking world. It developed out of the occult revival that got into full swing in the 19th century with such groups as the golden dawn.
Corn rigs and barley rigs!
#Monsterdon And of COURSE itβs a henge.
"No sir, it does NOT refresh me. π " #monsterdon
"One must always be open to the regenerative influences" is scots celtic for "wanna fuck" ?
this chemist has a... fascinating collection of things
Every song in this is catchy #monsterdon
THERES THAT HANDSOME NAZI KILLIN' MOTHERFUCKER
Wait wait, is that where "tragar sapos" comes from..?? #monsterdon
i get the feeling this entire island has a book entitled Hilarious Naked Songs To Sing For The Mainland Tourists hanging out on a back bookshelf somewhere. #monsterdon
slow pan past the penis hedge #monsterdon
annie ya boy spilling all yβall business about fuckin in the corn rigs out here #monsterdon
And suddenly weβre watching a David Hamilton movie. #Monsterdon
@apLundell If he memorized young girls' faces for the better part of a year he'd be accused of a crime too #monsterdon
the hall is also horny
#Monsterdon he's so British you can actually see the relief in his face when he sees a queue sign for the registrar's
@jmelesky That concept did seem to strike a nerve with him #Monsterdon
I haven't seen a dance number like this in any Busby Berkeley movie. #Monsterdon
Nakeds and flute playing!
(Was that on a bingo card?)
#Monsterdon
#Monsterdon Nude ladies and Pan pipes, getting Greek in here.
Was that a can of peaches she pulled out of her drawer?
#monsterdon lol I already lost words a while ago, this is fucking crazy.
@jonny Usually a lot more disorganised. Certainly not that kind of singing. If any singing then modern pagan songs. Also everyone is totally pissed.