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Hey there, listeners.

Welcome to Horror Movie Club, the show where two dudes who are not quite nerds but not quite nobs.

Choose a horror movie each week to rate and review.

I'm Brian.

I'm on the phone with Ashfin, and today we are discussing The Wicker Man from 1973,

directed by Robin Hardy, written by Anthony Schaefer, starring Edward Woodard,

Britt Eccland, Diane Silento,

Ingrid Pitt, and Christopher Lee.

In this film, a Scottish detective visits a remote island community to investigate the

disappearance of a young girl.

And if you're new to the show, we're going to talk about this movie, spoiler-free for the

first 15 or 20 minutes.

But after that,

we'll play some transition music and walk through the plot, spoiling things as we go,

and we'll also review the movie. So if you haven't seen it by the time we get to that

musical transition, you can go watch it on Tooby, I believe. And we are covering this because this is unusual for us.

We're on top of things.

This will have its 50-year anniversary the day this episode comes out, December 6, 1973.

That's incredible.

Good timing.

Yeah, so we're celebrating its 50th anniversary today with this episode.

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