Join us on the last day of April for a perfectly timed screening of the seminal 70s folk horror film The Wicker Man.
Sergeant Neil Howie, a police officer from the Scottish mainland, travels to the remote island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl, Rowan Morrison. A devout Christian, he is unsettled by the islanders’ overt pagan beliefs, public sexual rituals, and indifferent attitude toward the missing child. As preparations for the May Day festival intensify, his suspicions grow—and he begins to fear that something far more insidious is at play.
The Wicker Man eschews many conventional horror tropes, instead blending elements of detective thriller, folk musical, and arthouse fantasy. The bright, colourful optimism of the spring setting contrasts sharply with an atmosphere of looming dread, creating an unsettling dissonance that underpins the slow-burning mystery.
Seasonal Affective Cinema is a quarterly film club screening movies that aesthetically and thematically reflect the changing of the seasons.
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