Really Good Movies

Friday, August 18, 2006

The Wicker Man

Movie: The Wicker Man (1973)
Watched with: Nobody

What an amazing little movie.

It's about a creepy island off the coast of Scotland where everybody celebrates a weird Pagan religion that's allegedly based on "the old gods" but also has a strong dose of hippie dancing and 1960s folk music.

It features Christopher Lee promintently, but it's not like a typical old Hammer horror movie.
For most of the time, it doesn't seem like a horror movie at all, more of a weird mystery. Most of it's in the daytime, and nothing really horrible happens until the memorable climax.

They're doing a remake with Nicolas Cage that's supposed to come out soonish, but I can't imagine they could possibly make it this ambiguous and incredible.

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