Weirdhouse Cinema Rewind: The Wicker Man (1973) - Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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In this classic episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe discuss the monumental 1973 British folk horror film “The Wicker Man,” directed by Robin Hardy, written by Anthony Shaffer and starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee. (Part 1 of 2) (originally published 5/2/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.5 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind. |
| 0:11.9 | This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:13.5 | We have some episodes here for you. |
| 0:16.1 | Let's see. |
| 0:16.8 | Today is going to be The Wicker Man, the 1973, a part one of two. |
| 0:22.6 | We had a lot to say about this one, so we broke it up into two pieces. |
| 0:25.6 | This piece originally published 5-2 2025. |
| 0:29.1 | This is a vacation week, a week when we are airing reruns every day in an attempt to catch up and stay current and all. |
| 0:39.3 | So this is a prime week for a Weird House Cinema two-parter, |
| 0:42.3 | because in the Friday slot this week, |
| 0:44.2 | we will air The Wicker Man, 1973, Part 2. |
| 0:48.0 | So anyway, hope you enjoy this one, |
| 0:50.3 | and you'll get the other one again at the end of the week. |
| 0:55.2 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:05.6 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. |
| 1:09.6 | And this is Joe McCormick. And today, as we are recording this, |
| 1:14.0 | it is May 1st, the Sacred Festival of May Day. And so we are going to be talking, in accordance with the season, |
| 1:20.7 | about the classic 1973 British film The Wicker Man, which is usually grouped under a genre people call |
| 1:30.2 | folk horror. Maybe we can quibble in this episode about whether that title should or should |
| 1:34.9 | not be applied. And also note that we rarely do this on Weird House Cinema. Usually we keep |
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