NWJ906- Occult Theatre with The Schizo Bros: The Wicker Man (1973)

In the debut of Occult Theatre with The Schizo Bros, Jose Galison of No Way, Jose! joins Austin Picard of The Underclass Podcast for a parapolitical deep dive into Robin Hardy’s 1973 folk-horror classic The Wicker Man. Sergeant Howie lands on Summerisle hunting a missing girl and instead walks into a living ritual: a pagan community whose fertility rites, pageantry, and cheerful cruelty collide with his rigid Christian authority. Jose and Austin treat the island not as mere backdrop but as a laboratory of power—where tradition, spectacle, and sacrifice reveal how unofficial structures outmaneuver the state and how “civilization” itself can be a carefully staged performance.

This first installment of their movie-review series goes past the Maypole and the burning wicker to ask what the film still says about hidden hierarchies, manufactured consent, and the occult theater that keeps societies running. From Lord Summerisle’s aristocratic showmanship to the islanders’ collective willingness to feed the harvest, they unpack the movie as a parable of competing orthodoxies and the rituals that bind—or devour—a people. Tune into NWJ906 for an unfiltered conversation that treats The Wicker Man as more than horror: a window into the real machinery of belief, authority, and blood.

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