124: The Wicker Man (1973)

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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James and Chelsea finally keep their appointment with the ORIGINAL Wicker Man. This episode is sponsored by Hellofresh! Go to http://hellofresh.com/deadmeat90 and use code deadmeat90 to get $90 off including free shipping! SOURCES: Behind The Witchcraft Revival Of 1970s Britain, Something Curated https://somethingcurated.com/2019/02/... Long arm of the lore: Robin Hardy on The Wicker Man by Vic Pratt, British Film Institute https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/... Occult filmmaker Gary Parsons on why 60s Britain was obsessed with witchcraft by Salome Baudino, Hero Magazine https://hero-magazine.com/article/720... Communicating with the Dead: Can the Unknown be Regulated? by Kelly Buchanan, Library of Congress https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/10/ Secret Rites, dir. Derek Ford Midweek: Mary Whitehouse, BBC Archive Dead Meat Podcast ► http://deadmeatpod.libsyn.com/website Dead Meat on Social Media: Twitter ► https://twitter.com/deadmeatjames Instagram ► http://instagram.com/deadmeatjames Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/deadmeatjames Discord ► https://discord.gg/GHazvA5 Chelsea Rebecca on Social Media: Twitter ► https://twitter.com/carebecc Instagram ► http://instagram.com/carebecc James A. Janisse on Social Media: Twitter ► https://twitter.com/jamesajanisse Instagram ► http://instagram.com/jamesajanisse Practical Folks (James and Chelsea's other channel): https://www.youtube.com/practicalfolks MUSIC!! "U Make Me Feel" by MK2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do you think? I think we're dead meat. Real dead meat.
0:07.0	You dead meat!
0:12.0	Go ahead and laugh you guys. If I have a final word of glasses, it's...
0:15.0	A dead meat.
0:16.0	Welcome to the Dead Meat Podcast, the extension of the YouTube channel Dead Meat. I'm James.
0:21.0	I'm Chelsea and we are engaged and we like to get scared together this week. We are finally
0:27.0	covering the Wicker Man.
0:29.0	You have been wanting to do this for so long.
0:31.0	Yes. I've been wanting to do this since we covered the remake of the Wicker Man and to get ready for that episode,
0:40.0	I watched this original one and I just fell head over heels in love with it.
0:48.0	I like to the point where I was pissed that we had to cover the sequel.
0:55.0	Sorry, the remake. After going and finding this original one and watching it and just realizing it's so fucking good.
1:08.0	It's in my top list of horror movies. It's up there.
1:13.0	Watching it again for this episode just really sealed for me how much I love it.
1:19.0	It's just so everything I like in a horror movie and things I like from other movies that you don't normally get in a horror,
1:27.0	such as songs in movie songs being sung by characters, which is very cool.
1:33.0	This is basically a musical.
1:36.0	It is. It's...
1:37.0	Yeah, you could argue it's a musical issue.
1:39.0	I would argue it's a musical for sure.
1:41.0	I'm here.
1:59.0	Ever since then, because you didn't watch the original with me, you've just seen the remake.
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