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                       A little fire never hurt anyone

This weekend was definitely a film weekend for me. Today I got around to
viewing my current Netflix [1] (which has been sitting on my desk for a good
month or so) The Wicker Man [2], a low budget intelligent horror film
starring Christopher Lee [3] as the Scotish Lord Summerisle that worships the
old Pagan (or Druidic) gods and Edward Woodward [4] as a God fearing police
officer sent to investigate a missing child on the Lord Summerisle's island.

It was a rather refreshing horror film—more of an essay on clashing values
between Christianity and Paganism than a sea of blood and gore. In fact,
there's very little gore in the film at all and only one death (at the very
end). There is however, a decent amount of nudity as various Pagan rights are
shown but it doesn't come across as gratuitous but as something these people
do.

And to Spring's delight, it also has several musical numbers, but unlike most
Bollywood films (or musicals in general) these numbers don't feel forced at
all since again, it's part of their culture and the music happens organically
in the film (at a pub, during a festival and during attempted seduction by
Britt Ekland [5] (who's very easy on the eyes) of Edward Woodward's
character).

Now, I've forgotten why I put the film in my queue, but it was definitely
worth seeing.

[1] http://www.netflix.com/
[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/
[3] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000489/
[4] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940919/
[5] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001180/

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