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Wicker Dan the Birthday Man is back to specifically NOT talk about the bees! THE WICKER MAN isn’t the folk horror you’d assume based on the movies it inspired (including the 2006 remake). It’s more about a square who just can’t hang, the free-loving society he invades, and the reveal that maybe that society isn’t so free, after all. Find Dan… On Twitter at @aDapperDanMan On Bluesky at @adapperdanman.bsky.social On Letterboxd at @aDapperDanMan On his podcast about movies, Everything We Learned On Trylove episodes about RONIN (1981), FACE/OFF (1997), MANDY (2018), EDGE OF TOMORROW (2013), GOODFELLAS (1994), BARBARIAN (2022), DEMOLITION MAN (1993), HEAVENLY BODIES (1984) On Stoop Kidz! A Hey Arnold! Podcast References: “The Wicker Man: The Sources for an Insular Folk Horror” by Sophie Durbin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Totally Folked Up: Sex, Song, and Sacrifice in The Wicker Man” by Jay Ditzer for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket pr