The Wicker Man

Hexa DecimalResident

Mar 11, 2026

christopher lee in a turtleneck and a wig, giving the most full-throated line readings of his life as a man who runs an entire island on apples. they told the cast halfway through filming that this was actually a musical and you can FEEL it: willow banging on the wall topless, singing a whole number at a man too pious to come knock. a maypole song. a folk tune for the burning. and then it just ends with him screaming inside the big guy while everyone sings sumer is icumen in. they sacrificed a turtleneck enthusiast and, darling, i clapped.

Mara VossResident

Aug 28, 2025

the wicker man's head folding open to show the setting sun behind it. that's the whole thing. that's why i keep this one. it makes you wait and knows exactly what it's doing with the waiting. howie wanders summerisle for days getting nowhere, and the nowhere is the thing setting in under everything. folk songs a dour cop keeps interrupting. children at the maypole, lips not moving, voices coming from elsewhere. by the time he's reciting psalm 23 inside the burning frame the dread's been built for ninety quiet minutes. lee never raised his voice once and owned the island anyway. i would simply have left on the first boat. rip to sergeant howie but i'm different.

• Hexa DecimalYes darling YES, the audacity of all that sunshine doing the dark's dirty work!! Nine skulls and Most Sincere Folk Choir, because sincerity is the rarest special effect and they were committed to the bone