You can't help smiling at the audacity of it all and shivering a little at the feelbad ending.
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08/24/07
The Wicker Man (1973)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 40 Fresh: 36 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Consensus:
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Rated: 18
Runtime: 3 hrs 7 mins
Theatrical Release: 24-08-2007
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt
Reviews
The tension occasionally goes slack, but hardly anything surpasses that clifftop finale for freakish terror.
08/24/07
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A British golden-oldie worthy to be placed alongside classics such as Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives or Rosemary's Baby.
08/24/07
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Devised by its star Christopher Lee, director Robin Hardy and writer Anthony Shaffer as a meditation on the rise of New Age spiritualism, the movie is now, of course, gleefully camp and a tad reactionary.
08/24/07
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The ultimate British cult classic - a unique film that straddles genres, features Christopher Lee in a dress and builds toward one of cinema's most memorable climaxes.
08/24/07
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It’s a heady brew, but Hardy keep the mystery simmering, while his staging of several merrie pagan songs – and of course the chilling climax – is truly memorable.
08/24/07
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The Wicker Man is, more than anything else, a film about what people can do in the name of religion or, more generally, belief. Its power comes not from appeals to the supernatural but from a deep understanding of our own undeniable nature.
08/24/07
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Essentially, it’s an insane guilty pleasure, still enjoyable for its delightfully eccentric casting and for the funniest, creepiest pub scene in British movies outside of next week’s reissue, ‘Withnail & I’.
01/26/06
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A movie that'll burn its way into your unconscious and give you nightmares for many years to come.
12/18/01
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It envelops you in a time and space that is unfamiliar, fascinating, exotic, and frightening all at once.
07/10/07
The premise is quite intriguing and is certainly sinister, but it's undermined by a too-leisurely pace and musical numbers that are straight out of an x-rated fetish-fantasy as imagined by Walt Disney.
12/16/06
They deliberately cast horror icons to help them break the mold... if you keep in mind its original context, it can be a very interesting film.
08/31/06
The Wicker Man's genre-bending, thematic daring, and tortuous history have made it the U.K.'s definitive cult movie.
08/29/06
Mais do que simplesmente assustador, o filme propõe uma inteligente discussão sobre a natureza cegante das religiões (e o conforto que proporcionam), a intolerância e o fundamentalismo.
06/25/06
This unnerving chiller rises above genre conventions to deliver its own kinds of cool dread and surprises.
04/05/06
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