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B Movie as an industrial term is fine but I think The Wicker Man represents something different to most of the films/genres you mention there. It has a simliar place in film history to films like Picnic at Hanging Rock, A Boy and his Dog, Jacobs Ladder. Films that seem to have come from nowhere. In the UK in the 80s, we had this weekly TV slot called Moviedrome, which was how I 1st saw the Wicker Man and other films in that 'where-the-fuck-did-this-come-from?' vein, like Johnny Guitar, Brazil, Detour, Repo Man. Some were b movies, some were indie, others were a-list mainstream, but they all shared an originality and an oddness.
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