Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård's new film Wicker has been bringing people back to the cinema and the word of mouth is driving more people to go see it.
While you wouldn't think a story about a woman in love with a wicker man would be a box office draw, people have been flocking to cinemas to watch such a movie.
Wicker sees Olivia Colman play a fisherwoman who has a man made out of wicker, and he not only has all the women in the village a flutter, but women in the audience too.
Viewers have been posting jokes online asking if it's Okay to ask your husband to put a basket on his head, or if it's normal to be sexually attracted to your laundry bin, and this has intrigued more people to go and see the film.
Kirsty Blake Knox, features journalist and columnist with The Irish Independent, joined the Moncrieff show to discuss what made her go see the film, even if she initially thought it was a horror film.
She explained: "I initially thought it was going to be a remake of The Wicker Man and it was like a horror. Then I found out that no, it's not that. It's about Olivia Colman having sex with a basket, and the basket in question is Alexander Skarsgård.
"It intrigued me, like it did a lot of people, I would say predominantly maybe women, and then I went along to see it. And the reason that I think it works as a film is that a lot of the sex scenes are really funny in it, and I think that there's something to be said for that.
"Sex scenes can be quite divisive, I think, in film and TV shows. A lot of people hate them, and with good reason, because we've all had that experience of one popping up in a film or a TV series that we're not expecting and feeling very uncomfortable and awkward and staring at our phones.
"And they're also prone to cliche, a lot of cliche, like candles burning, people gripping sheets, and so they can become really tired and very gratuitous. But they work in this circumstance because there's a real levity to them."
Kirsty described how one scene sees Colman and Skarsgård's characters are in the throws of passion when she looks up at the ceiling and spots a hole in the roof. She asks him in the middle of sex if he could fix that, to which he replies that he could, and then they just get back to it.
"There's a lot of jokes about creaking and beds breaking and stuff like that," she continues, "and it just adds a humour to it that makes it a lot more enjoyable and funny and kind of giddy to watch than those serious, intense, brooding sex scenes that just really feel really tired."
Even more proof to her point was that Kirsty went to see the film with her mother, which she was hesitant about at first but there "wasn't a bother on us" thanks to the funny scenes.
Wicker is in Irish cinemas now.
Main image: Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård in Wicker Pic: Black Bear Pictures
