Cult British horror film with Edward Woodward as a virginal police sergeant who discovers a hotbed of pagan rituals and fertility rites on a remote Scottish island.

Read the Empire Movie review of EMPIRE ESSAY: The Wicker Man. The Wicker Man is, more than anything else, a film about what people can do in the name of religion...

The Wicker Man was lensed entirely on location in Scotland and is possessed of a weird and paganistic story. Anthony Shaffer penned the screenplay which, for sheer imagination and near-terror, has seldom been equalled.

Peter Bradshaw: Gripping occult horror.

The 1973 cult sensation, "The Wicker Man", is nearly impossible to describe without confusing the hell out of people. Mislabeled "the Citizen Kane of horror," by Cinefantastique, "The Wicker Man" is not really a horror film at all, but a dark religious thriller with a creepy edge and a song in its heart. Starring Edward

The Wicker Man is an early '70s British export that criss-crosses genres as easily as it confounds audience expectations. A film that defies categorization, The Wicker Man can be considered to be a horror film, a psychological thriller, a musical, ...

★★★★★ Once again, it's time for cinema audiences to keep their appointment with The Wicker Man following a recent 4K restoration. It's an offbeat masterpiece that reveals the dark heart of Britain through the perennial tension between social progress and the burden of the past.

For a film shadowed by the horror of sacrifice, it’s bleakly fitting that The Wicker Man was itself a sacrifice, an offering to this island’s ancient gods