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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.
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott takes a look at the new 50th-anniversary release of The Wicker Man and shares new perspective of the classic folk horror film.
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.
“The poet wrings a forever from Death, the only lover he will ever have who can really promise him that.” Meg Elison reviews Jean Cocteau’s 1950 classic ORPHEUS as part of our Classics of Pagan Cinema series.
Meg Elison reviews Liam Gavin’s 2016 occult horror drama, A Dark Song, for our Classics of Pagan Cinema series.