The Wicker Man (1973)
I managed to catch this movie a few weeks ago on Arts Central. And its timely screening I’m guessing is in conjunction to the soon to be released Nicholas Cage remake. I only know of this movie too because I have seen the remake’s posters.
The setting of the original is on some isolated Scottish island…a police sergeant is sent from the mainland to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. Through interviews with the local people and his own observations he discovers that most, if not all the locals are pagans. He soon starts to believe that the disappearance of the young girl has something to do with a sacrificial ritual that the locals practice.
The opening music, the image of a sleepy town and the thought of heavily accented English, made me think that the movie was going to be boring…. but it wasn’t. It might be slow at times, but never boring. The remake’s posters led me to believe that it was some kind of a horror, ghostly movie…. but its not. Its just a movie about the secret practices of an island inhabitants, which is I have to say is shocking and horrifying to see anyone practicing such rituals…but I wouldn’t say it’s a horror movie.
Overall I find it interesting and a good watch. The only rather hardly…hardly believable part was…why did the police only sent one of their guys for the investigation??
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