#lord summerisle

[jestersketch]

I'm almost certain someone has done this before but

[catboyrightsdefender]

christopher lee serving absolute cunt as lord summerisle in the wicker man (1973)

[fanofspooky]

Favorite horror movie characters 3/♾️

Lord Summerisle - The Wicker Man

[alexanderpearce]

happy 50th wickermanniversary i was so overcome i had to fill up an a4 (open in new tab and zoom for details!)

[horrorsmashorpass]

[orgyofthedamned]

lord summerisle fancam!!!!! idr who made this but thank you for making it its been sitting in my camera roll for years 😭💛

[saturnidsart]

is lord summerisle the original tumblr sexyman? pls discuss

[non-binar-ysunset]

you think lord summerisle doodled himself ritually carving out howies heart in his day planner. YES. his day planner. where he meticulously mapped every step of the plot. it’s got the Morrison tartan as endpapers.

[schlock-luster-video]

On November 7, 2015, The Wicker Man was screened at the Night Visions Film Festival.

Here's some new Christopher Lee art!

[junewongapologia]

I think it's a common misconception that Granda Summerisle invented the island's religion - he didn't! In and out of universe! Howie reads about the May Day rituals in a book that describes them as taking place all across Britain! Lord Summerisle describes his grandfather as "giving [the people] back their joyous old gods"! Extensive research was done re Paganism to write the story!

Granda Summerisle effectively revived a dead religion, he didn't invent one from scratch.

[gizarrte]

am i the only one who thought Lord Summerisle and Miss Rose had a lil smth going on considering they sang a really bawdy song?

[catboyrightsdefender]

I think I could turn and live with animals. They are so placid and self-contained. They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God. Not one of them kneels to another or to his own kind that lived thousands of years ago. Not one of them is respectable or unhappy, all over the earth.

The Wicker Man (1973)

[fanofspooky]

“Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man.”

[papsiguesss]

Me: *Waking up peacefully on Saturday morning*

My brain: Lord Summerisle and Grand Moff Tarkin should fuck.

Me:

Me: Well okay then.

[ophthalmotropy]

Rewatching The Wicker Man (1973), it's really striking to me how much the ritual is for Lord Summerisle's own benefit as much as anything else. In fact, I would argue that, in some sense, the sacrifice is for and to him (as he himself blurs the distinction in Aphrodite's case).

Just as the ritual is meant to appease both Nuada and Avellenau, both gods and men, both Lord Summerisle's hedonistic thirst for life and the people of the island's hunger for both produce and worship (Summerisle the man, the people of Summerisle, and the island of Summerisle itself), so too I think Lord Summerisle's motivation is double: both expediency and love. The film leaves it ambiguous whether he believes or not in what he preaches, and I think he does and does not. As a politician and a zealot, he believes in the way a really good actor has to believe in what he's doing, and he's both. Because he loves the drama of it most of all, I'd say, and the difference between a ritual and a play is so thin.

He loses himself in it! He does, and he looks so thrilled when he's singing and burning Howie. His hair flares out in a corona and he's wearing yellow and his head overlaps with the sun in one shot. The sacrifice is for himself because he's the sun.

[closetofcuriosities]

The Wicker Man - 1973 - Dir. Robin Hardy