perfectly lovely transmutation #monsterdon

Howie, I feel like you're just stupid. If you think they're fucking with you maybe don't TELL THEM WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO. #Monsterdon

Everyone hates that dickhead and gives no quarter (rhetorically).
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#Monsterdon ‘It’s not sacrilege if you’re not Christians!’ I think they broke the cop’s brain.

Heh, Pagan Barbarity :D #Monsterdon

Is the island heathen, or pagan? Make up your damn mind, copper. #monsterdon #wickerman73

#monsterdon Wait forget this rabbit meat I want to hear more of this patching and plugging song

This move is an exemplification of the mainstream response to people in the English speaking world at the time daring to suggest that there might be other religions more suited to them than Christianity. They got very upset and hounded many occultists.

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everyone forgets that christopher lee was very briefly in the who

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Christopher Lee showing off his height
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Who remembers The Equalizer? I'm enjoying seeing a young Edward Woodward

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“I am an enlightened heathen.”

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Waiter, there's a hare in my grave! #monsterdon

@Taweret They would fit in well on Mastodon #Monsterdon

"I believe that you are supposed to be the detective here" brutal #Monsterdon

slightly sour note as it zooms in on the contents of the coffin #monsterdon

@aprilfollies@mastodon.online Symbolic of how Rowan herself is missing. Hare today, gone tomorrow!

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Oh but you absolutely can be made a fool of indefinitely #monsterdon

🎵 A maiden did this tinker meet and to him boldly say Oh sure my kettle hath much need, if you will pass my way. She took the tinker by the hand and led him to her door. Says she, my kettle I will show and you can clout it sure.
For patching and plugging is his delight
(His work goes forward day and night)
Fair maid says he, your kettle's cracked, The cause is plainly told. There hath so many nails been drove, Mine own could not take hold. 🎵
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(Look for "The Tinker of Rye" on YouTube, they cut the song down and you don't want to miss Lee singing)

"But they're naked!"
"Naturally. It's much to dangerous to jump though fire with clothes on." *trying to stifle laughter*
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okay that wooden thing that he opened and pulled the knife out from looks cool as fuck though

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"A fool of indefinitely?" Ah, no. But long enough.

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'very perplexing for you. what do you think could have happened?'

lmao

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#Monsterdon Hare in a coffin, in Rowan’s grave. Symbolism!

i mean a beautiful hare like that, why not give it a casket? and this mfer desecrates it?

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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

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It's a very large hare they found in that grave.

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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.

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Sir you can't just go flinging dead hares at people. #monsterdon

Christopher Lee's smile is just so damn unnerving

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Strangely on-brand that I bought fruit as a snack tonight

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Oh, I think you can be made a fool indefinitely
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@cargot_robbie I think Rowan Morrison died falling from a coconut tree #monsterdon

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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.
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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

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I'm going to tell everyone this movie is about Watership Down.

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"HE BROUGHT YOU UP TO BE A PAGAN! You are the subject of a Christian country!"

Yes, and?

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@strangefour Sgt. Howie is made strictly from aftskin #monsterdon

torn between christopher lee's beautiful sparkling eyes and christopher lee's terrible wig
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"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.

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#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

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Suddenly this is giving me Houses of the Holy vibes!
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the girls dancing around the campfire naked is what i imagine happens at sleepovers

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@brooke i like how it's all some rich guy's sociology experiment rather than actual leftover old religion

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Looks like Risa #monsterdon #thewickerman1973

"He had his chance" 😂😂😂

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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?
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Let's settle this with a god fight

(go go Godzilla)

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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 😄 #Monsterdon

his lordship sure does have a lot of crap in his house.
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“Naturally. It’s much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on.”

💋👌

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God is dead

he had his chance, and blew it

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Fantastic fireplace mantle

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#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

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i was not prepared for Christopher Lee with fluffy 70s hair and sideburns #Monsterdon

@strangefour 8====D #monsterdon

#monsterdon His words not mine btw

"Here the old gods aren't dead."

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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

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#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.
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"Religious with ruined churches" Because there is only one religion...

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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.

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ooh, naked ritual!

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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.
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#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

#Monsterdon "But they are naked!"

He really *IS* a detective.

Having a Spinal Tap moment here

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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

"Much too dangerous to jump through fires with your clothes on!" Christopher Lee makes a good point!
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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.

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Corn rigs and barley rigs!

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#Monsterdon And of COURSE it’s a henge.