We’re covering two movies with “man” in the title, but DON’T BE FRIGHTENED - there’s lots of ladies committing trickery in the folk horror flick, The Wicker Man (1973 & 2006).
***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual assault, spoilers for Midsommar
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Sources:
Campbell, Dr. Danny. “Weekly Sermons: The Unholy Trinity.” The Tabernacle Family. The Tabernacle, 2022. https://www.thetabernaclefamily.org/tabernacle-sermons/weekly-sermons/sermon/650-the-unholy-trinity. Accessed December 2022. Web.
Chambers, Jamie. "Troubling Folk Horror: Exoticism, Metonymy, and Solipsism in the "Unholy Trinity" and Beyond." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61 no. 2, 2022, p. 9-34. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cj.2022.0014. Accessed December 2022.
“Constructing The Wicker Man: Film and Cultural Studies Perspectives.”Offscreen.com. https://offscreen.com/view/wicker_man#:~:text=Ashurst's%20essay%20demonstrates%20how%20The,the%20usual%20male%2Ddriven%20narrative.
Poole, W. Scott. “Monstrous Beginnings.” Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsessions with the Hideous and the Haunting. 2nd edition. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2018. Print.
The Wicker Man (1973) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man
The Wicker Man (1973) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/
The Wicker Man (2006) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(2006_film)
The Wicker Man (2006) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/
