The Wicker Man (Blu-ray)

Flesh to touch...Flesh to burn! Don't keep the Wicker Man waiting!
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 7, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1973
  • Label: Lions Gate

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 43,110
[With] a performance by Christopher Lee that the iconic actor declares is his best.
Los Angeles Times
Oct 31, 2013
4 stars out of 5 -- It remains a superb mystery-horror-musical-folklore picture.
Empire
Sep 20, 2013
Robin Hardy's 1973 cult horror film passed through several distributors, several versions, and several bankruptcies, picking up a powerful reputation along the way. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Oct 7, 2008
Part folk musical, part occult chiller, and quite mad. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Aug 24, 2007
[M]ysterious, horrific, and thrilling...
Widescreen Review
Feb 1, 2007
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
Aug 24, 2007
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. Full Review
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Feb 22, 2019

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 2,451
  • UPC: 031398182108
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