'The Wicker Man' gets his AARP card today, as the folk horror classic turns 50

The 1973 movie The Wicker Man helped kick off the subgenre known as "folk horror." The film, about a sinister pagan ritual on a remote Scottish island, has scared horror fans for five decades.

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