Hacked down to a B‑movie runtime for its original 1973 release (in a sublime bill with Roeg’s Don’t Look Now), this 40th anniversary “final cut” is the director’s definitive version. The film’s eponymous effigy has roots in the recorded (albeit contested) sacrificial rites of the ancient Druids. Lee plays their affable leader, suspected of engineering a macabre cover-up Bond girl Britt Ekland is a booty-slapping barmaid. The kicker: the locals are a pagan sex cult, who deny any knowledge of the missing child. Written by Sleuth scribe Anthony Shaffer as an against-type vehicle for Hammer Horror icon Christopher Lee, this inexhaustibly eerie film revolves around a devoutly Christian cop (Edward Woodward) investigating the disappearance of a girl on a remote Scottish isle. Robin Hardy’s heathen-horror masterpiece remains the bedrock of the folk horror subgenre. “Influential not just on subsequent horror cinema, but on the thriller genre in general … One of the five best horror films of all time.” Anne Billson, The Guardian The Wicker Man (1973) The Wicker Man é um filme britânico de 1973, dirigido por Robin Hardy e roteiro de Anthony Shaffer, cuja estranha história se passa numa ilha fictícia inspirada na verdadeira ilha de Saint Kilda, localizada ao largo da costa noroeste da Escócia.
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