The Wicker Man

Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland

A police sergeant comes to a Scottish isle where a local lord presides over a sacrificial pagan cult.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 013131142297
• Release Date: May 1993
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
• Director: Robin Hardy
• Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland
• Runtime: 1 hour, 28 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Anamorphic; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Widescreen; NTSC
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Something Wickered This Way Comes.

A fun little ditty about not-so-extinct religion. Of course, it may be a tad dated now. The screenplay is by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel “Ritual.” Paul Giovanni adapted it with a composed film score. After watching several similar movies, you may have guessed the gist of the movie right up front. However, it is worth watching the story unfold and may need to watch it a second time for the clues. Police officer Sergeant Neil Howie, Edward Woodward, takes a Thurston Teal seaplane to an isolated Scottish island named Summerisle. There he is looking for a missing girl, Rowan Morrison. And seems to be getting the runaround. Why are the healthy inhabitants that make their living growing apples so evasive? You can ask Lord Summerisle, Christopher Lee. Or hang around for the May Day celebration. Hold onto your maypole. This is one of my favorite Christopher Lee movies where he plays a normal person instead of a crazed creature. Notice that the songs sung throughout the film are also a character or add character to the movie; this especially includes the song sung by the cultists of Summerisle, "Summer Is Icumen In, is a mid-13th-century song about nature in spring. A side note is that lots of women have attractive smiles and show their frontal lobes proudly. The main character, police officer Sergeant Neil Howie, gets to look at them disgustingly. Poor man suffers from puritanism and other religious disabilities. Will he be cured?