Episode 85: On 'The Wicker Man'
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Since its release in 1973, Robin Hardy\'s The Wicker Man has exerted a profound influence on the development of horror cinema, a rich vein of folk music, and the modern pagan revival more generally. Anthony Shaffer\'s ingenious screenplay gives us a thrilling yarn that is also a meditation on the nature of religious belief and practice. Just in time for Halloween, Phil and JF discuss the philosophical ideas that undergird this folk horror classic, focusing on the perennial role of sacrifice in religious thought.
\\n\\nREFERENCES
\\n\\nRobin Hardy (director), The Wicker Man
\\n\\nStanley Kubrick (director), The Shining
\\nTerence Fisher (director), The Devil Rides Out
\\nPiers Haggard (director), Blood on Satan\\u2019s Claw
\\nJohn Boorman (director), Deliverance
\\nRob Young, Electric Eden
\\nGerald Gardner, English wiccan
\\nMargaret Murray, English anthropologist
\\nCecil Sharp, English ethnomusicologist
\\nPhil Ford, "Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica"
\\nFriedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations