Episode 85: On 'The Wicker Man' - a podcast by Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Since its release in 1973, Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man has exerted a profound influence on the development of horror cinema, a rich vein of folk music, and the modern pagan revival more generally. Anthony Shaffer's ingenious screenplay gives us a thrilling yarn that is also a meditation on the nature of religious belief and practice. Just in time for Halloween, Phil and JF discuss the philosophical ideas that undergird this folk horror classic, focusing on the perennial role of sacrifice in religious thought.
REFERENCESRobin Hardy (director), The Wicker Man (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/)
Stanley Kubrick (director), The Shining (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/)Terence Fisher (director), The Devil Rides Out (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062885/)
Piers Haggard (director), Blood on Satan’s Claw (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066849/)John Boorman (director), Deliverance (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/)
Rob Young, Electric Eden (https://www.amazon.com/Electric-Eden-Unearthing-Britains-Visionary/dp/0865478562)Gerald Gardner, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner_(Wiccan)) English wiccan
Margaret Murray, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Murray) English anthropologistCecil Sharp, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Sharp) English ethnomusicologist
Phil Ford, "Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica" (https://online.ucpress.edu/representations/article-abstract/103/1/107/81624/Taboo-Time-and-Belief-in-Exotica?redirectedFrom=fulltext)Friedrich Nietzsche, [Untimely Meditations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UntimelyMeditations)_

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