The Wicker Man (Director’s Final Cut)

Dubbed one of the greatest horror films of alltime, The Wicker Man actually contains verylittle in the way of violence and gore. Instead,this story of a policeman who encounters anunknown evil while searching for a missinggirl on a remote Scottish island gets underyour skin by being an eerie, outlandish andweirdly musical odyssey that instils dread usingelements of pagan folklore and the terror ofisolation. Featuring one of the most memorablefinales in the history of cinema, it pioneered the‘folk horror’ genre, which includes Ari Aster’s Midsommar and Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing .It also inspired a so-bad-it’s-good 2006 cultclassic remake starring Nicolas Cage, and EdgarWright’s meta-comedy Hot Fuzz .

25/5 (Sat): Film talk with Keeto Lam