Synopsis
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.
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Cast
- Nicolas CageEdward Malus
- Ellen BurstynSister Summersisle
- Kate BeahanSister Willow
- Frances ConroyDr. Moss
- Molly ParkerSister Rose / Sister Thorn
- Leelee SobieskiSister Honey
- Diane DelanoSister Beech
- Michael WisemanOfficer Pete
- Erika-Shaye GairRowan Woodward
- Christa CampbellTruck Stop Waitress
- 75
New York Post
Profoundly disturbing, blood-chilling suspenser. - 50
Los Angeles Times
In the end, LaBute's remake is an interesting idea that never transforms into a particularly satisfying movie. - 40
Film Threat
The Wicker Man isn't all that bad a movie; it's visually striking and ambitious in some ways. It just fails to bring enough to the table to fully distance itself from the original. - 40
L.A. Weekly
This wasn't a horror film the first time around, and LaBute makes sorry feints at effective creepiness, letting the story roam in circles just like Cage. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Unlikely to inspire a passionate following similar to the original, the film, which opened Friday without being screened for the press, ultimately induces more titters than dread. - 40
Variety
Any provocative questions LaBute might have wanted to raise are totally obscured as the rising tide of absurdity gradually overwhelms the entire enterprise. - 38
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 38
New York Daily News
As an allegory of religious conflict, the '73 film is brilliantly constructed and ends with a punctuation mark that was shocking in its day. LaBute's movie attempts to shock, as well, and does: Given the names involved and the casting of Cage, it is shockingly bad.