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The Pagan King: a Latvian medieval epic loaded with Pagan imagery
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This is not a subtle film. This is like Game of Thrones without a hint of subtlety and stranger accents.
The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/author/melison/page/5)
This is not a subtle film. This is like Game of Thrones without a hint of subtlety and stranger accents.
Meg Elison invites our readers to curl up on the couch for a Christ-less Christmas Classic, the 2006 miniseries adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel “Hogfather.”
Many have wondered if this strange piece of folk horror even existed, or if it was a mass hallucination, another iteration of the Mandela Effect. Not so, says Meg Elison in this review of 1978’s “Dark Secret of Harvest Home” – it’s quite real, and a transgressive delight for Pagan audiences.
The Craft is one of the only movies that shows, not in montage or in dream sequence, not in hints or in glimpses through a not-quite-closed-door, how Witches cast a circle, consecrate their spaces, and bring one another into the space between worlds.
A film where Christopher Lee performs real ceremonial magic techniques should be a shoo-in for our Classics of Pagan Cinema, right? Not so fast, writes Meg Elison, who reviews the 1968 film “The Devil Rides Out” and finds it not just flawed, but repellent.
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