Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This film was an unforgettable one. While the movie lacked any sense of suspense, it had a very compelling pair of protagonist and deuteragonist. The possession narrative is seeded well, with the prologue of the film providing a question for the nature of The Nineteenth Birthday. However, there is little sense of danger in the film and the poor cinematography makes the film look like a TV Movie, with little variance in lighting. It is still worth a watch as the film has a sense of honesty about it.
The Wicker Man (1973) was truly impressive to watch as a demonstration of how much a film can carry a genre. Sergeant Neil Howie confronts the pagan horror plaguing his search for Rowan Morrison. The beginning and the end both contribute to an almost mythical nature of the film. The Christian values and moral integrity upheld by Sgt. Howie, even into the film's climax, and the ambiguity of the final lines in the movie, fleshes him out. I'd love to involve myself in the story; this trip to Summerisle was a British excursion that should never end. I highly rate the film until the title crawl.