The Wicker Man - Final Cut (2013)
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This film is definitive version of Robin Hardy's thriller of pagan worshippers on a remote Scottish island. Seen for decades only in mutilated copies, the new Studiocanal restoration is the culmination of a long search for the complete director's cut. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the cult classic. After receiving an anonymous letter about a missing 12-year-old girl, devoutly Christian cop Edward Woodward travels by seaplane to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But the islanders
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All Critics (11) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (0)
If not quite the holy grail of horror films, than a holy terror just as well, lying lovingly in wait.
Top CriticAn absolute must for all serious movie buffs.
It remains a how-to model for making something that fancies itself a slow-burn thriller-until it isn't slow-burning whatsoever.
Many a film has tried to replicate this wonderfully off-kilter vibe -- and a few have come close -- but none has quite pulled it off.
No, it hasn't dated particularly well, and Hardy's rampant misogynistic tendencies feel even more appalling now. But it's still an unmissable one-off.
The strengths are overpowering; Edward Woodward's towering performance, Anthony Shaffer's brilliantly nasty script, Paul Giovanni's weirdie folk music, and that matchlessly horrifying ending.
While its influence has grown over the years, The Wicker Man still has the feel of a film apart, an island detached from the mainstream.
Troubling, brilliant and unmissable.
A British horror oddity like no other, now fully authorised.
The film's driftier interludes, however raggedly psychedelic, remain crucial to its aura, one of hypnotically sinister good cheer.
Still a classic, now enhanced by some judicious edits.
Audience Reviews for The Wicker Man - Final Cut
The Nick Cage version is also worth a look. It's Nicolas Cage at his Nicolas Cagiest......chewing scenery, punching women in the face and people in bear suits & screaming those unforgettable five words that are destined to become part of cinema lore, up there with..."You know how to whistle don't 'cha?",..........."Ahhhh Nooooo!! Not the Bees!!!!!"
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Foreign Titles
- The Wicker Man: Final Cut (DE)
- The Wicker Man, 40th Anniversary (UK)
