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The Wicker Man(Movie, 1973)

1h 34min | Genre: Horror
The Wicker ManRating: 3.7/5 (with 612612 votes)
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 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. The Wicker Man is well regarded by critics. Film magazine Cinefantastique described it as "The Citizen Kane of horror movies", and in 2004, Total Film magazine named The Wicker Man the sixth-grea... ()
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Duration: 1h 28min
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About The Wicker Man

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

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Official 2023 Re-Release Trailer(Trailer, 1:30)

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Shot in: Scotland
Plays in: Scotland
Based on the work of: David Pinner ("Ritual")
Derivative works/Adaptions: "The Wicker Man" (movie, 2006)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 29 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 12/21/2013 (World premiere: 12/06/1973)
Voice Actor: Annie Ross, Rachel Verney
Director: Robin Hardy
Producer: Peter Snell
Screenwriter: Anthony Shaffer
Director of Photography: Harry Waxman
Composer: Paul Giovanni
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"El culto siniestro"
"De gevlochten god"
"Le Dieu d'osier"
"Le Dieu d'osier"
"异教徒"
"El hombre de mimbre"
"Le Dieu d'Osier"
"Anthony Shaffer's The Wicker Man"
"The Wickerman"
"To katarameno skiahtro"
"L'uomo di vimini"
"Narrenes konge"
"Slomiane bóstwo"
"Pleteznik"
"Плетеный человек"
"異教徒"
"Плетена людина"
"El culto siniestro"
Budget: 810,000 USD

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