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The Wicker Man
1973 film by Robin Hardy
The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Christopher Lee. The screenplay is by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, and Paul Giovanni composed the film score. The plot centres on the visit of a police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie, to the fictional, isolated Scottish island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism. Released in 1973, The Wicker Man was met with mixed reviews at the time of its release, though it earned multiple nominations at the 6th Saturn Awards in the United States, where it won the award for Best Horror Film. The film garnered critical praise in the years following its release, and was deemed by the film magazine Cinefantastique as "The Citizen Kane of horror movies". In 2004, Total...
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