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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 9, 2008
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland & Edward Woodward | |
Performer: | Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Russell Waters & Aubrey Morris | |
Directed by | Robin Hardy | |
Screenwriting by | Anthony Shaffer | |
Composition by | Paul Giovanni | |
Produced by | Peter Snell | |
Director of Photography: | Harry Waxman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 10/10 --
A truly unique horror movie, one of the odd handful throughout history that doesn't really seem to have been influenced by anything and has no obvious heirs, not even its own remake.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Anthony Shaffer penned the screenplay which, for sheer imagination and near-terror, has seldom been equalled.
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Variety
[T]his vintage British shocker retains its potent mix of pagan horror and trippy hippie weirdness.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 5/5 --
Christopher Lee, who plays the lord of the island, thinks it's one of the finest films he's ever made -- and he's right.
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Radio Times
Rating: 3/5 --
You can't help smiling at the audacity of it all and shivering a little at the feelbad ending.
London Evening Standard
Its mysteries rely not on easy gimmicks, but on a process of intellectual unfolding carried out jointly by Howie and the viewer. All of this takes place against a context or texture of haunting eeriness.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
...It's a bleak, peculiar chiller -- erotic, eccentric and still shocking...
Total Film
Product Description:
A notoriously troubled production notwithstanding, the controversial cult classic THE WICKER MAN is now regarded as a classic of British cinema. Edward Woodward stars as Sergeant Howie, a naive young police officer sent to Summerisle, a secluded island off the coast of Scotland, to investigate the disappearance of a young girl named Rowan. When he arrives there, he finds a very tight-knit community that is mistrustful and hostile to outsiders. No one is willing to even acknowledge Rowan's disappearance. Soon, Howie begins to realize that the town might, in fact, be a strange pagan cult, one given to unbridled sexuality and possible human sacrifice. Seeking an audience with the oddly civilized Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee), Howie hopes to get to the bottom of the mystery, but instead he finds something more shocking than he could have ever imagined.
Written by Anthony Shaffer (SLEUTH, DEATH ON THE NILE), Robin Hardy's eerie film paints a disturbing portrait of an almost prehistoric, multi-deity worshipping society given to bizarre rituals and Bacchanalian excess. Though recognition may have been a long time coming, THE WICKER MAN stands as a strikingly original achievement that is equal parts horror, drama, comedy, and musical.
Written by Anthony Shaffer (SLEUTH, DEATH ON THE NILE), Robin Hardy's eerie film paints a disturbing portrait of an almost prehistoric, multi-deity worshipping society given to bizarre rituals and Bacchanalian excess. Though recognition may have been a long time coming, THE WICKER MAN stands as a strikingly original achievement that is equal parts horror, drama, comedy, and musical.
Keywords:
Cult Film
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Mystery
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Occult
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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Cult
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Essential Cinema
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