10 Horror Movies That Got Better YEARS Later

The Wicker Man has always been one of the all-time great folk horror films, but it's also a striking example of how a film's strangeness can only grow the further we get from its original release.

Now more than 50 years away from when it was originally released, The Wicker Man truly feels like a window into another world - its remote Hebridean setting and the culture depicted therein so far removed from pretty much anything in the contemporary experience.

This isn't to say that Summerisle and its pagan residents were a representation of "the norm" in 1973, because of course they weren't, but a half-century of distance from everything it depicts lends it an almost otherworldly quality that's probably only going to keep growing as more time passes.

To a younger viewer today, The Wicker Man may as well take place on another planet, and that only makes it that much more intoxicatingly hypnotic.