i really like the nicolas cage remake, this original adaptation is better directed and looks better obviously but honestly outside of nicolas cage.....i still preffer the remake.
this one is definitly stronger thematically but my god is the main character in this boring asf.
cage and the backstory they give him in the remake makes him a far more interesting character. here our main character is just a random police officer, i mean he does have character but he's very boringly played imo.
now the films sidecharacters, the people who live in the village are the best part about the film, here they all have great personalities that are fun to watch. the village and its people are better handeld in this then the remake because i do have to say that its to obvious in the remake.
is this technically a better movie?
probably but i still preffer the nicolas cage rendition.
The Wicker Man
Flesh to touch...Flesh to burn! Don't keep the Wicker Man waiting!
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12/6/1973Runtime
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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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A methodical descent into ritualistic strangeness on a remote Scottish island, where folk piety conceals something ancient and terrible. Watching it feels like being pulled deeper into a trap you're only slowly recognizing exists.
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