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The Wicker Tree, the Glossary

The Wicker Tree is a 2011 British horror film written and directed by Robin Hardy.^[1]

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Films about neopaganism
Films shot in East Lothian
Paganism in Europe

Anchor Bay Entertainment

The revived Anchor Bay Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company owned by Umbrelic Entertainment co-founders Thomas Zambeck and Brian Katz.

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Ancient Celtic religion

Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, bleak comedy, morbid humor, gallows humor, black humor, or dark humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Born again

To be born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, that refers to a "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit.

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British Lion Films

British Lion Films is a film production and distribution company active under several forms since 1919.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer.

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Clive Russell

Clive Russell (born 7 December 1945) is a Scottish actor.

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Cowboys for Christ

Cowboys for Christ: On May Day is a novel written by Robin Hardy, first published in 2006 by Luath Press.

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Cult

A cult is a group requiring unwavering devotion to a set of beliefs and practices which are considered deviant outside the norms of society, which is typically led by a charismatic and self-appointed leader who tightly controls its members.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edinburgh Evening News

The Edinburgh Evening News is a daily newspaper and website based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.

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Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor.

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Fangoria

Fangoria is an internationally distributed American horror film fan magazine, in publication since 1979.

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Fantasia International Film Festival

Fantasia International Film Festival (also known as Fantasia-fest, FanTasia, and Fant-Asia) is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Gorebridge

Gorebridge is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland.

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Graham McTavish

Graham McTavish (born 4 January 1961) is a Scottish actor and author.

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Haddington, East Lothian

The Royal Burgh of Haddington (Haidintoun, Baile Adainn) is a town in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Henry Garrett (actor)

Henry Garrett is an English actor.

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Honeysuckle Weeks

Honeysuckle Susan Weeks (born 1 August 1979) is a British actress best known for her role as Samantha Stewart (later Wainwright) in the ITV wartime drama series Foyle's War.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Jacqueline Leonard

Jacqueline Leonard is an English actress.

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Joan Collins

Dame Joan Henrietta Collins (born 23 May 1933) is an English actress, author and columnist.

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John Scott (composer)

John Scott (born Patrick John O'Hara Scott, 1 November 1930), also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is an English film composer and music conductor.

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Keith Warwick

Keith Graham Warwick (born 17 May 1975) is a Scottish actor and musician.

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Laird

Laird is a designation applies to an owner of a large, long-established Scottish estate.

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LeAnn Rimes

Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter and actress.

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Lesley Mackie

Lesley Mackie (born 10 June 1951) is a British actress, known for her Olivier Award-winning performance as Judy Garland in the original London cast of Judy.

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May Day

May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the Northern Hemisphere's Spring equinox and June solstice.

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May Queen

In the British Isles and parts of the Commonwealth, the May Queen or Queen of May is a personification of the May Day holiday of 1 May, and of springtime and the coming growing season.

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Midlothian

Midlothian (Meadhan Lodainn) is a historic county, registration county, lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government.

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Monty Python

Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.

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Mormons

Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Paganism

Paganism (from classical Latin pāgānus "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism.

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Peter Snell (producer)

Peter Snell is a Canadian film producer.

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Phoebe Fox

Phoebe Fox (born 16 April 1987) is an English actress, who was nominated for Olivier and Evening Standard awards for work in theatre.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Premarital sex

Premarital sex is sexual activity which is practiced by people before they are married.

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Purity ring

Purity rings (also known as promise rings, abstinence rings, or chastity rings) are rings worn as a sign of chastity.

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Robin Hardy (film director)

Robin St.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Scottish Lowlands

The Lowlands (Lallans or Lawlands,; place of the foreigners) is a cultural and historical region of Scotland.

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Sean Astin

Sean Astin (born Sean Patrick Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor.

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Spiritual successor

A spiritual successor (sometimes called a spiritual sequel) is a product or fictional work that is similar to, or directly inspired by, another previous work, but (unlike a traditional prequel or sequel) does not explicitly continue the product line or media franchise of its predecessor, and is thus only a successor "in spirit".

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Starburst (magazine)

Starburst is a British science fiction magazine published by Starburst Magazine Limited.

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Sulis

In the localised Celtic polytheism practised in Great Britain, Sulis was a deity worshiped at the thermal spring of Bath.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Lord of the Rings (film series)

The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by British author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Resident (film)

The Resident is a 2011 British thriller film directed by Antti Jokinen and starring Hilary Swank and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

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The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Christopher Lee. The Wicker Tree and The Wicker Man are films about neopaganism, films based on horror novels, films based on thriller novels, films set in Scotland, folk horror films, paganism in Europe and religious horror films.

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The Wicker Man (2006 film)

The Wicker Man is a 2006 horror film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Nicolas Cage. The Wicker Tree and The Wicker Man (2006 film) are films about neopaganism, films based on horror novels, folk horror films and religious horror films.

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The Wicker Man (film series)

The Wicker Man is a series of two horror films directed by British author and director Robin Hardy. The Wicker Tree and The Wicker Man (film series) are British horror films and paganism in Europe.

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Vanessa Redgrave

Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Tree

Also known as Cowboys for Christ (film), Cowboys for christ, The Wicker Tree (Film), Tressock.

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The Wicker Tree, the Glossary

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See also

Films about neopaganism

Films shot in East Lothian

Paganism in Europe

References