Flesh to Touch, Flesh To Burn! Don't Keep The Wicker Man Waiting! 50 Years of The British cult horror film.
Private View: Friday 16th June, 6-9pm
Exhibition runs: Saturday 17th June - Saturday 8th July.
Tuesday - Saturday, 12pm - 6pm
Booking is advised for this exhibition, though drop-ins are welcome. Suggested donation £4 - £10.
As an official partner to the 50th anniversary celebrations of the original release of Robin Hardy's controversial and troubled film The Wicker Man which became a cult classic.
"The Citizen Kane of horror films" - David Bartholomew, Cinemafantastique
The exhibition celebrates the history and continued contemporary influence of the film that would not die.
Featuring previously unseen archival materials from the Hardy Family Archive, The Wicker Man designer Seamus Flannery's personal schedule, set-build blue-print plans and photographs. Along with a selection of rarities: the 1980's fanzines that kept the film fan-base afire, their relics and ephemera and shows how the film has continued to cast it's long shadow of influence over a far broader and multi-generational cultural landscape including video homage from likes of Radiohead (Burn The Witch), Iron Maiden (The Wickerman), The KLF (Rites of Mu) right up to Gazelle Twin's Hobby Horse/Pastoral that has seared that iconic image into the minds of millions.
What other British movie has inspired an award-winning Alton Towers theme-park rollercoaster, a D.C & 2000A.D. comic characters, a long-running Sing-Along show, a full blown musical, a Warcraft gaming figure, a Muppet/Wicker Man mash-up photo-story comic and now the first large scale Musics From Summerisle concert on Midsummer's Day at The Barbican's Main Hall that honours composer Paul Giovanni's original soundtrack which itself kick-started much of today's rising folk-horror musical genre.