Christopher Lee is just a man out of time, huh
He's like a Sears catalog Frankenstein, he doesn't fit in here, he belongs in Middle Earth or Transylvania
This movie and many of its songs hold a special place in my heart because when I was in Wicca the HP of our coven would incorporate some of the songs into the holiday celebrations. The maypole song for Beltane, fire leap for Midsummer. Some coven members had costumes for ritual inspired from this. It's like hanging out with the gang again. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Parthenogenesis, so they're Gyaos, this IS a kaiju movie, splendid!
Ok. I get it. Pagan. But if they're pagan, where do the foreskins come from? Do pagans circumcise? #monsterdon
this cop would have a heart attack at any furry convention
"Shocks are better absorbed with the knees bent" I've heard THAT one before. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
Sgt Howie clearly has a lot to learn about jumping over fires. #monsterdon
#monsterdon I was just quoting.
#Monsterdon Our hateful cop goes to complain to the Justice of the Peace about lack of Christian conformity.
Justice of the Piece, more like…
"Have these children never heard of Jesus!?"
HOWIE. :/ #Monsterdon
"Naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through fire with your clothes on!" LOLOLOL
Also, _holy crap_ the hair on Christopher.
Lee's hair is easily the scariest thing in this flick. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
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"we're a deeply religious people."
yes i can see that. (^_^)
#monsterdon
dang i wanna do the naked jumping over the fire ritual #monsterdon
@Lazarou It might depend on who's doing the naked jumping
#Monsterdon Jumping the fire is pure Celtic though. Syncretism!
But how are the corn rigs, I must kno— ah here's the update, they're still bonny 😌
And now you know why he built the house there. #Monsterdon
Interesting Childbirth class.
But, they must be freezing. I gotta assume Scotland in May is not warm
Everyone on this island continues to be impressively well trained on the ceremonial dances
I've been doing yoga ALL WRONG apparently. #monsterdon #TheWickerMan
This baby ritual song is one of the strongest impressions this movie left on me in my first viewing.
And this copper is just like "man, I have a job to do"
There appears to be an excess of fertile unattached women on this island
We get it, you like corn rigs. Jesus. #Monsterdon
It was fall when they filmed the movie, so all the blossoms you see were glued on.
So the movie is really an allegory on the idea of "normality" and "sane" when an outsider reaches an isolated region where he is no longer the norm, and the norms make it the "other" #monsterdon #wickerman73
Was that the girl? Surely you remember her face. "It was only eight months ago."
Please, I can't remember faces I saw eight minutes ago. #monsterdon
#monsterdon wow there's a bush.
he is so punchable #monsterdon
Classic film technique, smash cut to the jar of foreskins. #Monsterdon
Frogs? #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon Just dropped in for a jar of foreskins.
Yeah, I just need a half pound of hearts please. Just a quite weekend
#monsterdon
I have a jar of foreskins, too. Mine's just not that big. I'm impressed. #monsterdon #wickerman73
#monsterdon The secretary looks like she's princesses Lead or whatever the fuck her name is from starwars.
A bit of candy after the frog licking helps the medicine go down, or something.
We've moved on from the missing girl not existing to being dead. Or something.
ok i did do a little bit of reading beforehand and apparently the navel string thing is just something they made up #monsterdon
"Where does your minister live"
Howie I feel like you're being deliberately obtuse here. #Monsterdon
Ahahahaha ahahahaha that was amazing #monsterdon #thewickerman1973
Pants on fire! #monsterdon
“When people die here, we act as if they never existed.”
Hire that epitaph writer, wow
Welp, every detective's favorite activity.
Time to dig up the back yard.
30 minutes into the movie before we get any concrete evidence that the girl actually exists
This has sovereign citizen vibes
#Monsterdon “Here, we do not use the term dead.” We prefer “natural recycling.”♻️
look what he's doing to their baby changing facility, coloniser!
Civilization vs. Pre-civilization
cop not exactly winning hearts and minds of the community if he wants to actually find the girl. cop just here to call everyone degenerates. like what do you think is going to happen acting that way #monsterdon
Toadstone? Hagstone? What other lore did he erase?
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
The girls go to school with a hare, that's all #monsterdon
Actually could you not erase that blackboard? We wrote some stuff on it at our last D&D campaign and it doesn't meet again until next Thursday. #Monsterdon
"our religion" oh good he caught on to that, and yet, he so hasn't
I guess I was born a few years too late to learn about maypoles and symbology.
#monsterdon
Serious question,is this the first #Monsterdon musical?
Creepy child insect torturer
Ahh yes, remember in grade school we learned about phallic symbols? #Monsterdon
@chirpbirb This Is Britain #monsterdon
"...speaking of dicks, here's one right now."
I was prepared for all the nudity. I was NOT prepared for all the singing #monsterdon
"anyways, here's wonderwall"
WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT INSTRUMENT? i need to boing my life away
Sex ed in the 1970s sure was weird.
"Maybe I would have been out of bed at a reasonable time if SOMEONE wasn't loudly slapping her own ass against my wall last night." #monsterdon
ngl this goddess of love dynamic is... kinda hot 😏
oh May Day foreshadowing
Wait did she "invite" him actually or by singing naked in some sort of ritual?
I feel like I'm not doing a very good job of following the dialog.
We have reached the point where I have *no* idea what's going quicker than usual
What, copper, never seen an outdoor orgy before?
The dubbing on Britt Eklund's dialogue is...really something. #Monsterdon
... remember that the "local lore" has been filtered through three generations of Lords Summerisle putting their personal take on it.
This dance choreography is something else aaaaaaaa #monsterdon
Okay I have seen the Nick Cage Wicker Man. And it was bad but like fun bad.
No one told me it was bad because it wasn't WEIRD enough.
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
nothing quite like singing about boners while dancing around a giant boner
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan1973
crying nudity shot!
@rogue_corq it's such a good film, well worth the cult status #monsterdon
#monsterdon lmao
Love the timing #Monsterdon
BIM would like to know what the fuck is going on in this movie. #monsterdon #wickerman73
i forgot exactly _how_ much unlike the usual monsterdon fare this movie is xD xD xD
#Monsterdon Naked folk singing is new to me.
yeah those beans aren't supposed to be fucking blue girl
What the fuck kind of hippie nightmare are we watching? #Monsterdon
Ive never noticed he has to go through the hotel's bar/ kitchen to get to his room. Can't imagine that's normal anywhere #Monsterdon
Sergeant's sure trying to make friends fast, alone and surrounded by people who are indifferent to him at best.
#monsterdon
I've seen like seven individual tits so far, I think a #Monsterdon record.
Theres something strange on this #monsterdon, almos as if this movie is to be taken seriously 😁
Church of England?
#monsterdon
"You can have peaches and cream if you like"
Be less subtle honey. #Monsterdon
Wait, is the cop catholic, or do anglicans also do communion?
communion imagery, praying at bedtime. Content warning
Somebody just said "where's the cult shit" and here it is #monsterdon #thewickerman1973
Damn those beans musta been real potent to see all that #monsterdon
I wonder why they're all in the same position. #monsterdon
Oh wow... Everyone is just fucking outside today. Is it the first of May?
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan1973 Just got to the #GreenManInn part