Robin Hardy
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Aquí, en particular, parece evidente la relación de Midsommar con el gran clásico de Robin Hardy, The Wicker Man de 1973.
Whilst tonally Midsommar could be likened to Hereditary , and its folk horror mentality easily links itself to the 1973 British classic The Wicker Man , this film very much harnesses its own identity.
Visually the movie harkens back to other folk horror entries, most notably Robin Hardy's 1973 classic "The Wicker Man," with bright colors and a pastoral setting cleverly juxtaposed against the sinister activities.
It would seem like Ari Aster’s Midsommar is created from the same mold as Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973), The Green Inferno (2013) and other horror films that mine fear, shock and shlock from fictional cultures that swerve away from mainstream civilization.
Y de ahí podemos pasar por Holocasuto caníbal (Italia, 1980) y algunos capítulos de la hoy mundialmente famosa Eso (en sus dos capítulos, 2017 y 2019) y claro The Wicker Man (Reino Unido, 1973) esa obra maestra del terror bucólico dirigida por Robin Hardy y de la que Ari Aster pretende mamar.
Retaining the commander’s deep seated Christian beliefs from the novel, oft-referenced, assist in channeling the heroism of studio era Hollywood efforts, and Hanks’ kind but restrictively rigid persona as Krause is sometimes reminiscent of the Christian sacrificial lamb played by Edward Woodward in The Wicker Man (1973).
A witchy image of Jesse splayed against a wall listening to a scene of sexual violence evokes Britt Ekland’s pagan dance from The Wicker Man , while Cliff Martinez’s sensuous music has something of the pulsating synth menace of Tangerine Dream’s Sorcerer score.
But other paranoid thrillers come into play as well, from M. Night Shyamalan’s recent “something’s not right” thriller The Visit to the terrific original 1973 version of The Wicker Man , where a detective investigates a child’s disappearance while fatally misunderstanding the situation.
Peele’s story is, after all, a stew of 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner” and 1973’s “The Wicker Man,” among other classics; a novel fusion of two underrepresented subgenres (interracial romance and cult horror).
Wheatley has also been greatly influenced by Robin Hardy’s 1973 cult classic “The Wicker Man” and its recent sequel, “The Wicker Tree,” involving paganism and chanting, along with nightmarish, quasi-religious rituals evoking twisted memories of William Friedkin’s “Rosemary’s Baby” and Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” and “Eyes Wide Shut.”
At some point, we exit the realm of "bad guys doing crime" and enter zones of fantasy and the occult, and the film begins to operate in narrative jungles previously deforested by the likes of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut , The Shining , Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man...and Edgar Wright's Hot Fuzz ?
Is Men another variation on that folk horror classic, The Wicker Man (1973), where an outsider falls prey to a backward village of idolators who follow strange rituals?
A classical score thrusts an old-school feeling to this film, which ends up equally influenced by Robin Hardy's "The Wicker Man."
I found myself writing down movie names such as The Thing, Once Upon A Time In The West, Interstellar, The Wicker Man and O Brother Where Are Thou? as I jotted down notes once the film had finished.
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Directed by Edgar Wright
influenced The Wicker Tree (2011), The Wicker Man (1973)
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The original "Wicker Man" has left a profound impact on British cinema, referenced everywhere from Edgar Wright's action movie send-up "Hot Fuzz" to next week's brilliantly bizarre horror film "Kill List," and yet "The Wicker Tree," armed with the chief creative force from the first film, can't evoke that original film in any real way.
Other regulars include Bill Nighy as the London Chief Inspector and Martin Freeman as a desk sergeant, along with supporting parts by Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, and Edward Woodward (quite fitting, considering a few nods to “The Wicker Man”).
Does the concept of a brit cop traveling out to the country to solve a major case with uncooperative townsfolk all around him sound a little like The Wicker Man? Did I mention that the N eighborhood W atch A ssociation ( NWA ) leader, Tom Weaver, is played by Edward Woodward?
Other famous actors pop in as well, including Paul Freeman ( Raiders of the Lost Ark ) and The Wicker Man star Edward Woodward.
It begins with amusing observations of life in small villages and later turns into a remake of The Wicker Man (1973), which is a clever idea.
One of the main plot threads comes from the horror classic The Wicker Man (1973), in which a puritan cop comes to a small village to investigate the disappearance of a girl.
…the film transitions to a sort of loopy, ammosexual Wicker Man riff…
This legendary cult film has received an almost absurd amount of accolades and kudos from fans of the horror genre, with noted genre magazine Cinefantastique going so far as to call it the "Citizen Kane of horror movies."
No surprise there ? the screenplay was crafted by Anthony Shaffer, whose Sleuth had already proven him more than able to build a tight whodunit on clever twists and the cunning of malevolent gamesmanship.
THE WICKER MAN was written by Anthony Shaffer, best known for his play "Sleuth."
Screenwriter Anthony Shaffer had previously penned critically praised adaptations of Sleuth and Frenzy (for Alfred Hitchcock).
I am referring, of course, to the 1973 The Wicker Man directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer at the absolute peak of his influence - it was three years after Sleuth was staged, and one year after it was filmed in the same year as Shaffer's script for Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy - and not at all the Neil LaBute/Nicolas Cage thing from 2006 , as has come to be regarded in later years as one of the truly misbegotten projects of the 2000s, and a film that has never been described by anyone as "all-time perfect" in any context at all.
With its literate script by Sleuth playwright Anthony Shaffer and memorable Scottish folk score, Hardy's fascinating mixture of horror, eroticism and religion is thoughtful, challenging and highly provocative entertainment.
The Wicker Man was written by Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth), who penned the screenplay because he wanted to script a horror movie that was devoid of the blood and gore that characterized films of the genre.
Screenwriter Anthony Shaffer had previously penned critically praised adaptations of Sleuth and Frenzy (for Alfred Hitchcock).
I am referring, of course, to the 1973 The Wicker Man directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer at the absolute peak of his influence - it was three years after Sleuth was staged, and one year after it was filmed in the same year as Shaffer's script for Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy - and not at all the Neil LaBute/Nicolas Cage thing from 2006 , as has come to be regarded in later years as one of the truly misbegotten projects of the 2000s, and a film that has never been described by anyone as "all-time perfect" in any context at all.
Written by Anthony Shaffer, who also adapted Hitchcocks "Frenzy" and penned both the play "Sleuth" and its later film version, the film masterfully builds a sense of discomfort and dread in the viewer, even though nothing particularly scary happens through the bulk of it.