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The Wicker Man
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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

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Certified Fresh88%

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Total Count: 52

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 43,110
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A slow burn of a horror film portraying cynicism and paranoia that's as effective as our belief of its possibility. It's just plain weird and great. [Full review in Spanish]. Full Review
Cinelipsis
Feb 18, 2019
Part folk musical, part occult chiller, and quite mad. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Aug 24, 2007
4 stars out of 5 -- It remains a superb mystery-horror-musical-folklore picture.
Empire
Sep 20, 2013
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
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. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
May 2, 2012
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
Rating: 2.5/4 -- An exploitative mystery horror film in which Edward Woodward overacts his heart out. Full Review
Cinema Sight
Apr 8, 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: 30,275
  • UPC: 031398103615
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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