The Wicker Man: The Sources for an Insular Folk Horror 

A procession of wildly dressed people weave through a Stonehenge-like structure.

|Sophie Durbin| The Wicker Man begins like a typical “everyone in this town is hiding something” crime story. Sergeant Neil Howie arrives by seaplane to the fictional Hebridean island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. He discovers that the locals, who seem ordinary at first, … Continue reading