Wrath of the Gods world première at FrightFest, 28th August 2026 Wrath of the Gods opens with a primal scene, inverted. In psychoanalysis, the primal scene represents a young child’s first, formative exposure to their parents engaged in sexual intercourse, which is misunderstood by the child as violence. Primal scenes have become a regular trope…
Children of the Wicker Man had its world première at FrightFest 2024 This documentary on ad-man Robin Hardy and his debut feature, the seminal folk horror The Wicker Man (1973), is co-directed (with Chris Nunn) by Justin and Dominic Hardy, two of eight children whom Robin sired (by multiple women). The unusual perspectives of these…
The Wicker Man: The Final Cut first published by Little White Lies At the heart of 1973’s The Wicker Man is a clash of old and new — although given that the ‘new’ is a stuffy, conservative form of Christianity, and the ‘old’ a revived paganism bearing an uncanny resemblance to the nature worship and free love…