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‘An unkind film’: letters reveal rift between director and writer of The Wicker Man

Exclusive: Documents show ‘hostile’ director and ‘self-indulgent’ writer were at loggerheads during production of 1973 cult horror film

The Guardian - UK · Oct 6, 2025

'The Wicker Man' gets his AARP card today, as the folk horror classic turns 50

The 1973 movie The Wicker Man helped kick off the subgenre known as "folk horror." The film, about a sinister pagan ritual on a remote Scottish island, has scared horror fans for five decades.

WEKU · Dec 6, 2023

Keith Baxter obituary

Actor and director who played Prince Hal to Orson Welles’s Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight, and triumphed in Sleuth in the West End and on Broadway

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2023

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Lusty singalongs and Brexit portents: the eternal flame of The Wicker Man soundtrack

With British folk songs done by a New Yorker, the soundtrack disappeared for decades – but has now become a touchstone for artists journeying to a nation’s dark heart

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2023

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