The Wicker Man (1973)

Explaining a Movie on Instagram: "@explainingamovie teaches you something new about movies everyday! Midsommar is essentially The Wicker Man reborn for a new generation. Both films are built around the same architecture: an outsider entering a closed, pagan community that appears idyllic until its rituals reveal a darker logic. In The Wicker Man, that logic tests faith and moral conviction; in Midsommar, it tests grief and emotional dependence. Ari Aster takes the skeleton of Robin Hardy’s 1973