5 Horror Movies That Keep Their Scares In Broad Daylight
The majority of horror movies are set at nighttime, and this is for good reason: darkness is scary. Blind to what's right in front of us, our mind looks for what information it can get and often comes to the worst conclusions: the coat hanging on the door is an old man; the noise coming from outside is a monster, and so on.
Horror plays on this universal fear to great effect, but too much of the same thing can become boring. Fortunately, these movies found other ways to frighten audiences; keeping their scares in broad daylight, they ditch the darkness whilst managing to keep the dark themes.
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The Wicker Man is a British folk horror movie based on the 1967 novel Ritual by David Pinner. Directed by Robin Hardy, this cult classic stars Edward Woodward as Neil Howie, a police sergeant who's sent to a small Scottish island in search of a missing girl. Here, in Summerisle, he is met with claims that the girl never existed and witnesses strange pagan rituals by the locals. A devout Christian, Howie is horrified by the island's practices, but that is the least of his problems. Still searching for the missing girl, on May Day Howie finds himself at the mercy of the townsfolk and their leader Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee).
Set mostly in the daytime, The Wicker Man is no less creepy for it. In fact, the warm and sunny atmosphere makes it all the more unsettling as it evokes fever dream-like visuals which mask the horrors occurring. Something is off, but you'd never guess what from the islanders' high spirits or Harry Waxman's cinematography alone.
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