“I’d like a dingy please.”

Such a weird line. #Monsterdon

… and we’re taking off on the plane immediately after the very short church sequence, with some drone pipes and folk singing. #monsterdon

having that extra bit on top makes a great target for later in the film, Chekov is absolutely going to target that later in the film

#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon CORN RIGS IN EFFECT.

I'm starting late with the Internet Archive-hosted extended version of the movie, let's see how this goes. #Monsterdon

This movie seems to be of high quality. I’m not sure how I feel about that. #Monsterdon

corn rigs ARE bonnie

that's true

#monsterdon

@strangefour would visit
#monsterdon

ok so i'm all geared up to be like the christians are the bad guys meddling with and interfering with the local religious practices of the area right #monsterdon

This movie already smells extra pungent #monsterdon

corn rigs and barley rigs time #monsterdon

seaplanes are also just those things that land down on the lake all day xD

#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon

British Lion presents ...

Wait, there's gonna be lions in this?

#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

Doon't go oon the mooors! #Monsterdon

Britt Ekland fan club here. #monsterdon

Airplane sighted

#monsterdon

Seaplanes were always synonymous with adventure in my childhood. I always wanted to go on one. #Monsterdon

Sunday the 29th of April 1973

#Monsterdon

there are soo many versions of this and i think we're all watching different cuts so this is gonna be chaos

#monsterdon

british lion, as opposed to those other, less cultured lions. #monsterdon

Tonight's race is between people watching different cuts of The Wicker Man.🏎️ #Monsterdon

5..4..3..2..1 GO

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#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO!!!!

WE GOT WICKER SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGN (and it's very well made wicker, too!)

#TheWickerMan #Monsterdon

Also: other movies starring Ingrid Pitt (for those who might be interested, and possible future #monsterdon options)

Countess Dracula: a Hammer version of the legend of the Countess Bathory
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065580/

Vampire Lovers: a Hammer version of the story of Carmilla
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066518/

Sorry for hogging the local TL today everyone. if u can see this and aren't sure what #monsterdon is, we just watched the wicker man together, so if you don't want your feed to be cluttered with out of context movie posts, u can mute the hashtag or join us next week. more info here: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

Oh yeah! For one last #Monsterdon post, I feel strongly that I should link this:

https://youtu.be/wd3bulGaQQM?si=Ww35qVK0VtT1kBHp

@FE78MLT A bunch of us get together and watch a movie together, _mostly_ a monster movie, and comment along using the hashtag.

It's every Sunday evening and you can get notices by following #MonsterdonAlert

#monsterdon #TheWickerMan

+ community, is a travesty.

Any way, I've probably rambled on too long. Long story short: ACAB, Scottish sweaters = good, inn-keepers daughters = hot, masks = fun, we don't have enough henges any more.

Thanks everybody for watching! Thanks @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week, see you next Sunday!

#monsterdon

For those joining this feed already in progress, we are bringing another Sunday’s #Monsterdon to a close. As you go farther back in the timeline you’ll see lots of mad movie commentary. Feel free to (a) filter out the #Monsterdon hashtag, (b) mute me as long as you feel necessary, and/or (c) keep an eye on #MonsterdonAlert for the next opportunity to join in!

ETA: https://meow.social/@YsengrinWolf/112946850632464485

apparently he was also in the late 1980s Beauty and the Beast TV show, so i'm sure i saw him there, coz i watched ALL of that, and IMDB tells me he played someone named Duncan in Babylon 5, so i must have seen him there too, but i don't remember that. #monsterdon

@Louisa perhaps you need a #monsterdon viewing mask

perhaps we all do

@steggy @Taweret i'm reading david graeber's "pirate enlightenment" rn and it has some echoes with the malagasy pirate societies that were a combination of european pirates actually being pirate kings and native peoples sort of coming to some equilibrium of power where the spoils of piracy were good and we sort of fuck around with these pirates to make them think they are kings #monsterdon

@jonny @steggy @Taweret I thought from Lord S's exposition that his grandpa pretty much invented the religion when he took over the island, and he would've just assembled it from whatever bits and pieces he liked.

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Pretty sure the first time I heard about wicker men was playing Nethergate: Resurrection - great game if you like Celtic age Briton with a magical turn based combat game with a lot of reading, and basically any game from Spiderweb Software I recommend (love the G.I.F.T.S.!) - because the Celtic side opens with a sacrifice like that.

Didn’t know they also stuck animals in there at the same time. If the main point is the human sacrifice, what are they, like side dishes? #Monsterdon

@justabean s'funny i thought that woulda been the most swedish

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@steggy @Taweret i think both - like it was a contemporary cobbling together of traditions, some from the area and others not, as the few-generation indigenous religion in the universe of the movie #monsterdon

#monsterdon the most eire part of this to me was how much some of the actors looked like they were in ABBA

@CactuarJoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r3XjiftkEM

#monsterdon #TheWickerMan

@moira The frogs didn't work, so they imported giant african toads #Monsterdon

@Taweret I wonder what it is about animal masks that seems so sinister. they also got used later in like heist movies and like hotline miami but that seems to be an old fear #monsterdon

@morganmay i mean, really, no thanks, but i did watch the #monsterdon movie with all the bees and didn't die. i might put up with a few shots of bees for some hilariously bad Nic Cage...?

#monsterdon hello

(anybody check to make sure the cop actually died?)

https://youtu.be/jLaCqrisEac?si=jpS21zCXK_TOToEZ&t=22

#monsterdon #TheWickerMan

@Taweret yeah its an old dehumanization trope, despite christianity having exactly the same kind of sacrifice rituals. like i thought that the twist ending was going to be that 'it doesn't mean literally sacrificing someone's life' bc of the way they kept splicing in the sacrament scenes #monsterdon

@Taweret i want to go back and see the exposition scenes in the full cut real quick #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Grade Report for #WickerMan73 :

Landscape and scenery: A+ fantastic.
Folk songs and folklore: A, pretty authentic
Folk festival: A, authentically weird
Random nudity: C-, trying too hard
Ancient British/Celtic rites: C-, you’re not supposed to just mix & match them
Hippie Pagan Sex Cult: … I’m not touching this one. (Like our protagonist.)
Christo-fascist Cop Guy: Will not be mourned.
Acting: B+, great except for extended monologues.
Goat: A+, G.O.A.T.
Twist ending: 🔥
🍎 🍎 🍎

@Taweret its complicated right like they didn't paint the cop in a sympathetic light at all but they also did lean into the "superstitious natives are wrong about Science" trope which isn't great. it felt like they wanted to paint a very sinister picture of the people on the island even if that mostly failed and it just seemed like people Having a Culture. cults are bad because they hold people against their will and have systemic abuse and etc. but this just wasn't that and so like the decision to make them sacrifice the cop against his will anyway seems odd, esp. since their other rituals included mock sacrifice like the blade ritual. #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @Taweret Ah yes, the gateway drug to frog legs! #monsterdon

@chirpbirb Lhude sing, cuckoo!

#Monsterdon

@Taweret The back up involved frog licking #monsterdon

@davesdogmaggie IKR?! #monsterdon

@moira @davesdogmaggie I thought clothes made the man (no you didn't) no, I didn't #monsterdon

so... should i watch the nic cage version? #monsterdon

final cut version of the movie will stay up here for a few days if you wanted to download a copy, but i'm gonna probably take this one down since there seems to be active copyright enforcement

https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/a5VLVAy5fpDHwtur4PCqKG

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*Clap clap clap* really enjoyed this movie! Now I am curious about the remake. I watch #Monsterdon on my own but I know a few friends who will surely enjoy this movie!

Always thankful to share my Sunday with y'all

#monsterdon So how did this go over in the 70s? Were people more on the cop's side?

I guess I have family who wouldn't think he was overdoing it with the religious disgust even today.

I love a happy ending

#TheWickerMan #monsterdon

@jonny Sorry for my technical ineptitude at the start. If anyone has any questions feel free to ping me anytime. @Taweret

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@davesdogmaggie well yeah, they needed 'em all to make the man

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Plenty of female characters with names talking to one another about diverse subjects here #monsterdon

Howie, I don't think evangelizing from inside the actual wicker man is going to go over well. #Monsterdon

the shot of it burning down zooming into the sunset? perfect. 👌

#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

PRAISE THE SUN!
That's a monsterless Monsterdon wrapped.
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

@Taweret lololol how did I not think of that

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon “Just step right into this wicker rocket. It’ll take you to Mars.”

🎵 Credits are icumin in, loudly sing cuckoo
Thank our hostess with the mostest @Taweret , please do!
Sing cuckoo! 🎵

And thanks to everyone else for sharing my favorite movie with me. We might not have all been on the same version but it was like having everyone in my living room. 💜
#Monsterdon

@Infoseepage Pagans have always hated Rome #monsterdon

ritual sacrifice compares very favorably with the contemporary climate change grifts of carbon capture and whatnot tbh where the sacrifice is of our public body to be gobbled up by fossil fuel industry proxies #monsterdon

@dirtyoldtown Seems like a good idea to me. Can't be too careful #Monsterdon

The moral of the story is when you're staying in a strange place and the person next door is banging around a lot you should consider whether it might be an urgent coded message to heed #monsterdon

this is a fun ceremony, the music is so lovely :)

#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

Was not expecting an electric guitar as part of this soundtrack. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
👯👯👯👯💃🕺👯‍♂️👯‍♂️👯‍♂️👯‍♂️👯‍♂️

Let the Olympics begin :birdsite:

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#WickerMan

Are we sure they shouldn't burn a few more cops, just to be sure?

#Monsterdon

i always wonder if they had a back up plan in case he did decide to have sex with the woman when she sang to him

was there a back up virgin cop running around the island we just never saw?

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon "the lord is my shepherd"
big Marge Simpson trying to improvise a song against the Bawdy House vibes

SUMMER IS A-COMIN' IN 🎵

#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

@diazona The cop was the monster #monsterdon @Taweret

@srol Wicker Man engineering is actually pretty difficult. I've seen some go down pretty awkwardly

#TheWickerMan #monsterdon

@socketwench@hackers.town The islanders controlled his every thought from the moment he stepped onto the isle. Lord Summerisle said "martyr" and that's all it took for the sergeant to take the role of the martyr.

#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

#Monsterdon listen dude at least it isn't a Mumford and Sons song or something

RIP bozo

Another #Monsterdon in the bag, it was great fun sharing the experience with people who'd not seen it before! Have a nice week y'all

AWAKE YE HEATHENS

they are awake and sacrificing you, you dumbass

#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

huh

Well, that was a weird movie, but usually there is a monster I can cheer for in my weird movie, all I got today was a bunch of creepy people. Can the goat be the monster?

In any case, thanks for hosting @Taweret and thanks everyone for posting, it was definitely an experience 😀

#Monsterdon

These LARPers were wild back then #monsterdon

If you want to read about actual Druids then I recommend Ronald Hutton's Blood and Mistletoe. It has everything we actually know about the Druids.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon
I'm awakeing
I'm howling

go on

Such an odd movie. Thanks as always to @Taweret !
#monsterdon

@Ooze so showing the sacrifice as being of an unwilling person like this is part of the propaganda you were talking about where the colonizers wanted to make them look as bad as possible #monsterdon

Classic movie, love it.
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Thanks @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon

#monsterdon I rate this 5/5 wicker men

"Others have figures of vast size, the limbs of which, formed of osiers [wicker], they fill with living men, which being set on fire, the men perish enveloped in the flames. They consider that the sacrifice of peoples guilty of theft, or in robbery, or any other offense, is more acceptable to the immortal gods; but when a supply of such people is wanting, they have the right to even sacrifice the innocent.”

-Julius Caesar

#monsterdon

ah! a clockwork orange! that's where i know the gravekeeper from. he played Alex's probation officer in A Clockwork Orange. #monsterdon

🎵 Summer is icumen in
Loudly sing Cuckoo
Grows the seed and blows the mead
And springs the wood anew
Sing Cuckoo!
Ewe bleats harshly after lamb
Cows after calves make moo
Bullock stamps and deer champs
Now shrilly sing Cuckoo...
... Cuckoo... Cuckoo
Wild bird are you! Be never still Cuckoo! 🎵
#Monsterdon

It's the titular! He's here!
#Monsterdon #TheWickerMan

I'm not sure about the "there won't be any trace" plan for getting away with the murder. One doughy guy from the mainland basically figured out your whole society in two days and that was with the orgies keeping him all night. #Monsterdon

@dirtyoldtown Maybe he's upset they didn't say anything about a carbon offset #monsterdon