That trope is also true for a lot of horror films and not just folk horror. Horror filmmakers probably should retire or at least not rely on that trope too much just like the weird kid or the character whose sole purpose is exposition. "Honey, our son is spitting black demon blood..." "Don't be absurd, Linda. I'm sure there's a logical explanation for that. Have you taken your meds?"
while technically correct, it seems you missed a crucial detail in this interpretation, its subtle but its effects on the narrative musnt be underestimated, you see the husband and wife...... are the same person, and believing in yourself its one of the basics for mental health, either that or maybe the husband knew and the reason he took his wife to a far away vacation was for ... sex
I grew up in the Westcountry and I'm just learning that playing with Twiglet men, running away from strangers and shouting sex at them is considered somehow abnormal.
You're doing nothing wrong, just ever so slightly adapt to the rest of the world. For example, "here" we don't play with twigle men but with butterfly knifes and guns, we don't run away from strangers but instead stalk them and last but not least we don't shout random words at them but silence our prey. When in rome, do as the romans do, I've high hopes you'll be fine.
@@StrangeDepthsAP 'can somebody finally tell me what that word means? you making these... weird jestures does not help at all! is this some local thing we need to learn?'
@@JahlisMan They are using this fictional idea of “sex” to explore real-life things like demon cults and ancient evil entities. So in this movie, the concept of “sex” is just an allegory for the ancient evil that the city folk are repressing, the villagers have a ritualistic pagan connection with, and whose call the couple’s teenage child is awakening to.
As an Aussie, I had no idea what a Twiglet was. Thought you had just found some deformed little sticks in the wood and painted them up to look horrendous. “Twiglets are a wheat-based snack[1] marketed in the United Kingdom that have a "distinctive knobbly shape" similar to that of twigs and a speckled-brown-over-pale-colour appearance. The taste of Twiglets, which has been compared to that of Marmite, primarily derives from the yeast extract used in the coating.” Ahhh it’s a deformed biscuit smeared with Vegemite! Now I get it. Yes, some people react that way to our cultural icons too.
@@isaacburrows8405In an outdated and questionable way, as is custom. Btw, when will you arrive from Victorian times in the present and start using Modern English? :'DD
Feh. Their elaborate online hoax and mockumentery on Sci-fi channel are what made that film a success. I don’t know anyone who saw Blair without seeing those FIRST who didn’t hate it immediately. My dad walked out of it.
Ah! So HE must know what happened to Jessica. At that fateful Wednesday. When she stepped through the strange portal, sealed with a rectangular slice of hinged wood.
@Катя Гаврилюк I'm not sure if that method could work for photos, but it definitely won't work for movies - each frame needs to have a completely different grain pattern. Obviously the effect was achieved with a simple filter in the video editing software.
Screaming and shaking the cage made entirely of twiglets as I look down on the singing Morris dancers about to light the twiglet pyre I shout NOOOOOOOO!
Don't forget to ignore the legend of the tree where the hanged witch was killed where you'll find yourself by accident late at night after running away from the cottage scared of a jumpscare.
thats cool but you missed three key things. the first is the scene where the wife and husband are looking around a market of some kind or are on the cobblestone main street and suddenly realize everyone is staring at them before all the villagers promptly go back to looking normal. the second is the weird old grey-haired hag being strangely obsessed with the pregnant city girl and her baby or alternatively the strangely promiscuous young village girl constantly trying to get into the pants of the lead character. and the third is the young boy or teenage villager who is not down with the villages occult practices running to the main character and through panting breaths telling them to run as far away as they can before they're sacrificed to whatever dark god it is this time.
2nd act plot twist: the proprietor just has Tourette's, the village children were mocking him, and the husband turns out to be possessed by some kind of local bogeyman legend.
@@targaghjj IMDB synopsis: "Visitors from the outer Anglo-Saxon protestant anally regressive world don't know what sex is and never had one while the backwater mysterious low brow agricultural local folk knows everything about it. 'Meet the Peasants', Prehistoric, Medieval and 1968's best petty bourgeois horror of all time!"
It's quite simple, really; "sec" is short for second, so if someone asks you to "have secs" with them, it means they want to spend a little time with you.
Funny video as always. it's very reminiscent of "the Isle" (great film, give it a chance) well honestly the fact that the villain would cackle as he fucks up the protagonists would be grand lol. Well done Alasdair. Oh yes and congratulations on appearing on taskmaster!! My girlfriend and I love that show and when I saw you on there I had a double take because why would they put a youtuber on XD haha but you did well! I hope that leads to more opportunities for you in the future my friend.
Watch the movie The Wicker Man from 1973 (NOT the remake with Nick Cage), it’s among my top ten movies. There are several clips on youtube, eg maypole song, to get a taste.
No John. If you had been to enough teenage parties in the UK you would know the horrible yet alluring call of the Twiglet plate.It's been the Primrose Path to Hell for too many of us.
A triumph. 🤣👍🏻 Also a nice trip down memory lane. Fond memories of the little village in which I grew up. I wasn't aware of variations between villages. I have no idea what "twiglit man sex" has got to do with price of fish these days! When I were a lad it was little women figures we fashioned from pork scratchings. Certainly it should be obvious to any mind that shouting "CRABS" is the only reasonable thing to even consider. Sorry to state the obvious. I'm opened minded though. I'll t'wigglet, just a little bit. EAR WOOOORMS!
I watched and really loved the short folk horror series Equinox recently. I really wanted to be like "aHA, this one you got wrong!' and then it hit me that, no, no it tracks. ._. ......sEx! D8
the fact that I knew ABK was playing the wife but the fact he also passes very well with a full beard simultaneously makes me scared and happy at the same time
So, the scariest part is that you know for a fact that this couple will have to learn what sex is. Truly terrifying, please, no sex in my Christian horror movie.
@@augustagadriverssuck7726 It's regional. IIRC, it tends to be a European thing to put it outside and an American thing to put it inside, although I actually put it outside despite being American, because I'm also a programmer and the content of strings matters
@@justineberlein5916 Let George Stark know this, obviously CDL Driver is American as "CDL" stands for Commercial Driver License and I am sure most European countries do not use that acronym, so I wrote what I wrote based on the proper punctuation based on a quote usage in America.
I would watch this 2 hour and 56 minute feature film in a small, 100 seat theatre as part of the annual 24 hour horror movie marathon. Shaun of the Dead at the beginning and end of course.
For about two and a half seconds, I thought "They should call that movie 'The Twiglet Man' ahaha" And then in rapid succession I realised: 'The Wicker Man' exists, that's the entire point of this video, and I am an idiot
