#Monsterdon everything is so deliciously pagan. Heathen. Pre-Christian. And absolutely whole grain! The wholest of grains!

Oh wow, the corn rigs song was sung by the director!

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Mad how they give that cop his own sea plane to go about his day

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I love screening classics like #monsterdon The Wicker Man, and seeing it all again. I love how everyone reacted, it was truly a wonderful and lovely experience with all of you watching it together. I love the idea of this movie starting folks on a rabbit hole of discovery. Welcome one and all! It works because it gets people asking some pretty kickass questions. 🥰

If you need a palate cleanser after watching The Wicker Man, here is some pretty dope Kung Fu

https://www.youtube.com/@WuTangCollectionDope

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@diazona @CactuarJoe honestly, the British Police could be fooled like this year after year, maybe that's how they get rid of awkward coppers?

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i have like one hundred wikipedia articles open rn #monsterdon

I'll go with Wicker Man being one of the weirdest (complimentary) movies we've had here.

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Thank you @Taweret for leading this procession of fools in another #Monsterdon! Definitely a classic, eerie as heck… and surprisingly musical.

I don't usually participate in #Monsterdon, even when I mean to, but this is the only movie I've actually seen before, all-be-it only once over a decade ago. So I'm especially interested in the commentary tonight.

I know you're swaying too

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#Monsterdon huzzah! Thanks everyone! A classic!

go on, join in with the final song, raise the old gods

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#monsterdon This song is so disturbing.

#Monsterdon Oceans really excited, Sun too. Everyone’s all gussied up. Mmm and there we are. The Wicker Man! Wheee! buhbye virgin fool king.

the anointing of the nipples

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#Monsterdon anointed. Perfumed. Cleansed. Tweaked.

This is St Ninian's Cave. St Ninian is the earliest known Christian missionary to Scotland. He established a church at Whithorn in the 390's AD, while Roman soldiers still stood guard to the south along Hadrian's Wall. The town of Whithorn was used for several filming locations including Summerisle's library and the registry office.

Here is the ruined Whithorn priory and the church there today.

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they have Chris Lee looking like Pocahontas. it's most likely a reference to some First Contact myths about the Celts and later Irish Catholic priests having not just 'discovered' Bahamas and Nova Scotia but had well-established trading routes with Native Americans.

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#Monsterdon mmmm ACAB Howie. You’re the right kind of adult for this. You’ll do amazing things. Very soon now.

#monsterdon yeeeeeepp I knew he was gonna be the sacrifice. He's fucked!

#monsterdon I fucking knew it, so I wonder how this ends now.

@_L1vY_ he doesn't help himself #monsterdon

#monsterdon Wow lol OK, midsummer vibes for sure.

AHA! Now I finally know where "the salmon of knowledge" came from! 😂

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how long was she waiting sexily in the bath for?

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This plot seems to be about inefficiently getting from tit scene to tit scene #monsterdon

THE SALMON OF KNOWLEDGE!!!!!

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I love community fun days

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#monsterdon The bakery is kinda dope?

#monsterdon I knew he should've left long ago, hell he should've never went.

Uh oh a furries cult

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dude, you're on an island, you're single, she's literally singing for you to come fuck her, ladies are your thing, right?

Your life could depend on getting laid, that might actually be true for once.

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Solving island mysteries with OSINT and never being lured to pagan islands

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Cop seems obsessed with pagans and murder.

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Nobody blinks, even when they're lying

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#monsterdon This is why I'm Asexual.

#monsterdon So a religious sex cult?

What the fuck?

#Monsterdon leaping over a bonfire to take the spirit of fire for the babies growing in all those young ladies. Or, at some point.

#monsterdon These people are delusional. Lol.

Well chat let me know this was coming.
"Protected by the ejaculation of serpents."
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#monsterdon And how many times did I say wtf is going on?

This film is a bit breast-obsessed

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#monsterdon witf is this teacher talking about?

I'm convinced this would be good with the right dosage of shrooms. #monsterdon

Surprise! Everyone's lying! #monsterdon

I did not realize this is a horror musical. #monsterdon

Sally Fields saw better days after she was forced into this phallus jerking of a movie

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#monsterdon I have come to the conclusion that everyone on this fucking island is nutty as hell. The girl probably ran away lmaoooooooooo.

#Monsterdon Everything is so well done. This is so refreshing. People and their land, and one really freaked out cop.

Oh God no morris dancing PLEASE

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#monsterdon O_O the fuck is she doing?

Oh God, 70s people having sex, what's the opposite of an aphrodisiac

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This pub scene is like a drunk Disney exhibit #monsterdon

ooooh foreshadowing with those Summerisle photographs

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#Monsterdon It gets horny pretty quickly. They’re all very entertained. *wink wink*

#monsterdon these people are weird as hell and I love it.

#Monsterdon Green Man Inn. In every young lass. Ooofta.

"not silly old rabbits.....fuck those guys, amirite?!"

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C3PO in the bullhorn and without the droid drag

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Throw the anchor out of the airplane... #monsterdon

Been to a number of locations in Scotland where the film was shot. Wonder if I'll recognize any.

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@randy_s Oh I kinda missed that part. But yeah they were living on canned food. Like that one lady he questioned who pulled a can of something out of her desk and directed him to Lord Summerisle. Huh. They were being nice AND fattening him up.
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We’ve had high-quality #Monsterdon movies the past few weeks. I feel I should vote for a real stinker next week, in the interests of karmic balance.

"They Did Their Own Research" - A Comparative Study of Folk Religious Practices on Summerisle and the Global Anti-COVID Vaccination Movement (2025, Lord Summerisle et al)

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Like, I'd have to sit down & do a compare/contrast, but my memory of the theatrical cut is that we're supposed to think that it's bad that the cop dies at the end; at the end of the extended version, I'm like, yeah, that asshole had it coming.

Someone compared The Wicker Man to Twin Peaks in there; yes & no! Yes, cop comes to small community filled with wierdos; no, as Sgt. Howie is the antithesis of Agent Cooper. Cooper gets to know the locals, enjoys the coffee, pie. +
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Hot damn, what a great movie

Seen it at least a dozen times, fallen asleep to it several dozen more

1st time seeing the 100 minute version tho'! was previously unaware of the different cuts... The extended version on Archive dot org is now cannon to me

One thing that stands out in that version to me: it comes down much more forcefully on the side of, "Christ this cop is an asshole", it seems?

Sure, the islanders are wierdos, but the cop sucks, and is terrible at his job +

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@Taweret i think my favorite scenes were the "everyone fucks with the cop in series" ones, and in particular kid playing dead in the wardrobe was maybe the peak 5 seconds for me, extremely well played. #monsterdon

I'm just haunted thinking of whatever happened to that poor beetle #monsterdon

@apLundell @Taweret I think the way they saw how he comported himself demanding a dinghy they knew things would go smoothly #monsterdon

@yatsu They get a cop in the early 90s and WHOOPS turns out it's REALLY hard to find a virgin in the Met these days. #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe brings new meaning to the phrase rent-a-cop. (^_^) #monsterdon

I remembered the outdoor intercourse scene as taking longer the last time I saw this film. Odd bit of memory distortion #monsterdon

...Y'think this ever happened again? Like, a decade or two later the crops failed again and they went, "Hm, best send for another cop. Anybody got the address we ordered from last time?" #Monsterdon

So, they're gonna sacrifice the guy in the burning wicker man, but to do that, they have to sing the "we're burning someone to death" song. That means rehearsals. Practice. Musicians had to sit down and learn the piece.

"I mean, I was gonna do poker with Danny and Phil on Tuesday, but Lord Summerisle says our phrasing is a bit lifeless in the second movement of the human sacrifice song. If Nigel would just learn his part better, we wouldn't have to spend 3 nights a week practicing for the May Day cop-burning. I'm so tired of the song already."

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If anybody who was watching #monsterdon tonight is interested, there's a fan-made audio drama sequel to The Wicker Man (1973) that's based on Shaffer's rejected treatment for a sequel to the movie. Tbh I haven't listened to it yet, but I probably will now that I've finally gotten around to rewatching the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1-_knDKPlw

@yatsu it is funny, but not intentionally, which is why it's funny. Nicholas Cage is at 110% in it.

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It's a lot harder to pay attention to the TL when the #Monsterdon movie has a plot!

But remember:

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen

A most excellent #Monsterdon! The real monster was Christian colonialism the whole time 🌞

That was not the good kind of bad. It's going to take a while to recover from that. #monsterdon

Yet not a single rattan chair on the whole island. #Monsterdon

i love that this ending is the most jovial i've ever seen Christopher Lee #Monsterdon

He's probably fine though, right?

I'm sure he's fine.

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oh nevermind guys, the guy who came and mocked our culture for three days said we're about to commit murder

okay call it off lol

lmao

Villagers: OK Boomer #monsterdon

loudly sing, cuckoo!

ty for joining, everyone!!

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and thanks to @Ooze for joining us!!!

So this is also the bad ending for Untitled Goose Game.
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Not to be serious here, but the fact King Cop becomes a screaming, denouncing street preacher at the end is intentional.

Yeah, it's cheesy out of context, but it does make sense within the logic of the film. He's a power-hungry, brittle man. Faced with imminent death, he tries to invoke powers greater than he that he respects. He tries to use that to instill fear in the villagers. Yet, without the systems of power to back that up, it's no more than ravings.

The wicker man falls, the sacrifice complete, revealing the glowing disk of the sun, a symbol of the villager's faith. It's art-y and neat, and leaves the film with open questions.

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THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOIIING

oh, dude, they've thought this through. a lot. they did their research

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I really don’t empathize with this guy at all. I’m on team islanders.

Does this just hit differently in 2024 than it did in 1973?

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like the cop was only interested in rescuing the girl because he was intent on ending the belief system of the town and proving they were murderers. he had plenty of times where he showed he was more interested in destroying their belief system than in rescuing the girl. the version of the movie where you might be sympathetic to the cop is like "ok so nobody around this person believes they were killed or even acknowledged their existence, guess i better go home home now and quit my job" #monsterdon

the use of Oh God and Oh Jesus in this scene is incredibly unsettling

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Rarely has the Sun looked so hungry....

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“Your god isn’t real. Let me tell you about my god.” #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon The whole point of the Wicker Man is to be a *proxy* for a human sacrifice. But to be fair, the cop pissed off the ENTIRE island.

The cheerful singing around the fire is the creepiest of all.

#Monsterdon furries owning fascists has a long, storied history

Typical Scottish cuisine, not even a marinade in sight -_- #Monsterdon

Good news! I got tickets to Burning Man this year! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon “Killing me is not going to bring back your apples!”

Uh, 3000 years of folk tradition say otherwise.

"Killing me won't bring back your god damn apples....oh wait......"

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