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	Wicker Man Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Famously, The Wicker Man was denied a full British cinema release and was hacked to bits by the film's studio boss (Michael Deeley) who declared the film to be rubbish.
		Wicker Man fanatics are not quite as famously mad as fanatics of the cult British TV series 'The Prisoner'!
		Dumfries and Galloway in the south of Scotland served as the location for most of the scenes in The Wicker Man. The most notable exception is Plockton, which doubled as Summerisle harbour and seafront.
	www.wicker-man.com /trivia.php (1844 words)

	Wicker Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wicker Man was a large wicker statue of a man used by the ancient Druids for human sacrifice, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentary on the Gallic Wars).
		Today, a wicker man is burned as part of neopagan festivities, especially Bealtaine, a rite of spring.
		Wicker men are tall, humanoid wooden structures, woven from flexible sticks such as those of willow as used in wicker furniture and fencing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wicker_Man (531 words)

	The Wicker Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the final shot of the film, the islanders surround the burning wicker man and sing the Middle English folk-song "Sumer Is Icumen In" while the terrified Howie shouts out Psalm 23 and implores divine vengeance on the island and its inhabitants.
		A full-size, burning Wicker Man appears in the background of the "End of the World" Party in the film version of "The Rules of Attraction".
		The image of the burning wicker man is a recurring motif in the final stages of the comic series The Invisibles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wicker_Man (1897 words)

	Wicker Man
		The end of the film could, very well, have served as inspiration of the Burning Man festival held in the Nevada desert throughout the 1990s.
		The film was written by Anthony Schaeffer, the man who penned Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy." He'd follow this film up with a number of Agatha Christie movies.
		The studios were apparently not enthusiastic about the film when it was finished and refused to do it justice by promoting it or giving it a legitimate release.
	www.esplatter.com /reviewsttoz/wickerman.htm (454 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Thousands mark 31 years of The Wicker Man
		THE screams of Neil Howie are drowned by the roar of flames illuminating a Scottish coastline, tranquility intensifying the horror.
		The final scene of The Wicker Man is a disturbing and enduring image that elevated the film to cult status.
		Gail Ashurst, 35, from Manchester, who was at the festival and saw The Wicker Man in 1985, admits it defined her life.
	news.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=853662004 (663 words)

	Movie News \| The Wicker Man \| cagefactor.com
		The Wicker Man is now set in America and while she admits it’s “dangerous to remake a classic” she also said, “I haven't seen the original.
		Wicker Man centers on a cop (Cage) investigating the disappearance of a young girl in a small, cult-like community.
		LaBute's Wicker Man screenplay is largely faithful in plot and structure to the original film but with some notable alterations to the main character and to the community he encounters.
	cagefactor.com /photos/wickerman.html (3812 words)

	The Wicker Man
		Original pieces of wood from The Wicker man were sent to us, maps, photos, stories and more just kept coming in.
		To my knowledge, a book just about "The Wicker Man" and the various mysteries surrounding it will be published in 2000, and when we hear more information it will be posted on this site.
		If you happen to be after a legendary Trunk Wicker Man vinyl album complete with hilarious spelling mistakes I suggest you look on ebay where they turn up occasionally.
	www.trunkrecords.com /turntable/wickerman.shtml (636 words)

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	The Wicker Man (Special Edition) - Read Reviews
		The Wicker Man (1973) is one of the most well known and respected cult movies of all time.
		The Wicker Man was first conceived in 1972 when actor Christopher Lee (famous for his previous roles as ‘Dracula’ in the infamous Hammer Horror movies), Peter Snell (head of the film company, British Lion) and Anthony Shaffer (writer) first began talking about making...
		The Wicker Man is brilliantly acted, the screenplay impeccably researched and well thought out and it is accompanied by a wonderful folksy soundtrack, containing elements of ancient folksongs, but which was composed specifically for the film.
	www.ciao.co.uk /Reviews/The_Wicker_Man_DVD__5329378 (1662 words)

	The Wicker Man
		The problem is that The Wicker Man is such an atypical piece of Brit horror that using it as a representative example both misrepresents the movement as a whole and does an injustice to its more conventional product.
		I've never been that keen on The Wicker Man's direction, finding it to be flat and somewhat zoom-happy, with a definite preference for the careful precision of a Fisher.
		Don't think that The Wicker Man is the alpha and omega of Brit horror and take in some of the films it was responding too as well.
	www.kinocite.co.uk /0/63.php (678 words)

	The Wicker Man (1973) \| Classic-Horror
		One of the truly classic horror-thrillers of the 20th Century was most definitely The Wicker Man. Now, with Anchor Bay's Limited Edition DVD (packaged in an attractive wooden box), you can enjoy the near-complete 99 minute version of the typically cut-to-ribbons suspense masterpiece.
		He is also a man who scoffs at such puerile concepts as "decency." He is probably also emotionally driven, though he hides it under a veil of tranquil logic.
		The Wicker Man would probably be a perfect film if it weren't for two highly annoying elements.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/wickerman.shtml (683 words)

	The Wicker Man News
		In Warner Bros.' remake of the 1973 thriller The Wicker Man, Edward Malus is about to get burned by his former fiancee, Willow, but he doesn't know it until it's too late.
		Director NEIL LaBUTE insists original THE WICKER MAN star CHRISTOPHER LEE will be happy with his remake of the cult horror classic, despite the veteran actor labelling the new movie "desperate".
		Above, a scene from the newest version of "The Wicker Man." The original film, which was set on a remote Scottish island, starred Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward.
	www.topix.net /movies/the-wicker-man?removemenu=movies/the-wicker-man (713 words)

	Cage By Page : The Wicker Man News & Previews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		UK playwright and film-maker Neil LaBute is reported to be planning to remake The Wicker Man, with Oscar winner Nicolas Cage in the starring role.
		The 1973 Robin Hardy classic The Wicker Man, starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee, was about an innocent policeman investigating the disappearance of a young girl on a remote Scottish island, the inhabitants of which are part of a secretive neo-pagan society.
		Hardy, who will direct the film, said that May Day was not a sequel or a prequel to The Wicker Man but it explores the same themes and will be shot almost entirely in Scotland, with some scenes shot in Texas.
	www.cagebypage.com /abouthismovies/news_previews/the_wicker_man.html (1291 words)

	Wicker Man, The (2006): Reviews
		The Wicker Man is too loony to be a drama, too earnest to be a comedy, too predictable to be a horror film.
		There may be a way to remake 1973's cult thriller The Wicker Man, in which a deeply Christian cop has his religious convictions shaken to the core as he investigates the disappearance of a child from within a cheerfully pagan community, but Neil LaBute didn't find it.
		The Wicker Man is just another film that should have been left in the past and the money wasted on this wretched remake could have used to help starving children or something.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/wickerman (1027 words)

	Metaphilm ::: The Wicker Man
		The Wicker Man presents no bogeymen, no vampires, and no sinister music; its ending is all the more shocking, in fact, for the twee charm of the villagers and the folk-music score, which lead the audience into a false state of complacency that mirrors Sgt. Howie’s own vulnerability.
		Unlike the original druidic Wicker Man (the Wicker Men recorded by Roman historians had expressive faces stuffed with flowers woven into them, and were located in woodland areas) the one depicted in the film is faceless and located on a beachy cliff top.
		As he burns, the Wicker Man crumples before the setting sun of a life, an anthropology, a story, a game of truth, a history, an image of man washed away by the timeless movement of the sea.
	metaphilm.com /index.php/detail/the_wicker_man (1780 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Wicker Man
		Famous as an English horror movie that only a lucky few have seen since its 1973 debut, The Wicker Man is less what you'd expect in a "horror movie" and more of a tightly wound mystery/suspense police procedural with some horrific components — chiefly the pagan-ritual set-piece that provides the film's title.
		A significant part of The Wicker Man's mystique falls on the oddly bewigged head of Christopher Lee.
		The Wicker Man is now available from Anchor Bay in two DVD editions — the original 99-minute "director's cut" and the 88-minute version that hit American theaters during its initial run.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/w/wickerman.q.shtml (942 words)

	The Wicker Man
		The combination of the visually terrifying Wicker Man itself, the suffering inspector, and the happily singing and smiling villagers, is something you will not soon forget.
		Accordingly, he is stripped of his uniform and pushed into a gigantic wicker basket, in the shape of a man, perched on a hilltop.
		The Wicker Man is about a Scottish police sergeant who goes to the small island Summerisle in response to an anonymous tip that a girl has disappeared.
	www.scoopy.com /wickerman.htm (3486 words)

	Blu-ray Review: The Wicker Man (2006) \| High-Def Digest
		Which brings us to the 2006 version of 'The Wicker Man,' a big-budget redux of the 1973 cult classic that is driven so clear off the tracks by director Neil LaBute that it truly boggles the mind.
		The original 'Wicker Man' was exciting because it utilized genre conventions and a terrific ending to inspire serious discussion about faith and religion -- the controversy the film generated was not cynical, but sprang organically out of the tough questions it asked.
		LaBute's 'Wicker Man' on the other hand, merely exploits gender issues with glib condescension, and funnels his "vision" through the worst cliches of bad horror films.
	bluray.highdefdigest.com /wickerman2006.html (1541 words)

	Wicker Man Page
		The Wicker Man, started out as a B-movie in 1973, but has steadily grown in reputation and has become one of the principal cult movies of the past 25 years.
		The Wicker Man began life in 1972 when actor Christopher Lee; Peter Snell, head of film company British Lion; and writer Anthony Shaffer formed a casual consortium and started to discuss the possibility of working on a movie project of mutual interest.
		The Wicker Man is being remade by a Hollywood studio with Nicolas Cage in the lead role.
	www.tylwythteg.com /WICKERMAN/WickerMan.html (3727 words)

	Essay
		'The Wicker Man' proposes the 'return of the Christian repressed' as a particular place, an island, but of course it was also a time: an 'archipelago' of years beginning, say, in 1963 (the age of The Beatles, the Lady Chatterly trial, and, according to Philip Larkin, the year sexual intercourse 'began' in Britain).
		And 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' casts Bowie as a more charismatic Howie, a 'visitor' to Earth just as Howie is to Summerisle, trying -- in the end unsuccessfully -- to reconcile his very different culture to the one he has landed in.
		It is also to Japan that I have to turn to find the closest living relative of the animistic religion conjectured by 'The Wicker Man', for Shinto is a surviving, thriving modern version of the very un-Christian rituals, the sensuality and fertility worship we see in Hardy's film.
	www.imomus.com /wickermeetsman.html (2304 words)

	THE COLD SPOT \ Movies \ The Wicker Man (remake)
		The original "Wicker" has gained some visibility recently, thanks to a DVD release of the pic including the original version, a version with 11 minutes restored, a theatrical trailer and a docu.
		There's even a Wicker Man festival set for July 19-20 in Galloway, where the original pic was shot, featuring screenings, live music and the immolation of giant wicker men.
		But when I heard that Joe Berlinger was considering directing an adaptation of The Wicker Man, a strange thrill ran through me. I think this could be a great idea.
	www.theflagship.net /coldspot/w/wickerman-remake.html (961 words)

	notcoming.com \| The Wicker Man
		The Wicker Man may be an obscure film, but its fans hold it with such conviction that it is as remembered and cherished as a grade school crush.
		Religious imagery is in abundance in The Wicker Man.
		The Wicker Man was a low budget effort, even by early Seventies standards, though it includes the collaboration of reputable players in the British film industry.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=237 (1425 words)

	Robin Hardy & The Wicker man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I know that when we burnt the Wicker Man there were all sorts of strange messages from ships passing in the straits, because it was the main sea lane between Scotland and Ireland.
		To see this man almost as high as a building blazing away must have been quite startling from the sea.
		We had an escape hatch at the back so that he could be got out of it extremely fast, and we had somebody at the back who could just pull it open and pull him out, and he went down on a kind of pulley attached to his belt.
	www.forteantimes.com /exclusive/wicker.shtml (3197 words)

	DVD Times - The Wicker Man
		Essentially, The Wicker Man is a deeply cynical religious allegory, disguised as a typical outsider-detective-investigates-disappearance-of-girl mystery thriller.
		The Wicker Man tells of Police Sgt. Howie (played in the most brilliant pompous tone by Edward Woodward) who is an officer in the Scottish mainland.
		The Wicker Man Enigma: This is an excellent retrospective documentary looking back at the legend that has grown around the film since its release.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5092 (2082 words)

	The Wicker Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Many authorities also believe that burning the wicker man was once connected with actual human sacrifice (as the garish but interesting film by that title suggests).
		The wicker man ritual at Rites of Spring in 1982 was prepared carefully beforehand.
		The wicker man burning at Spiral was the last of the three, and a relatively small contingent of people were there from the original group.
	www.earthspirit.com /fireheart/fhwkman.html (2228 words)

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