The Wicker Man

    The Wicker Man
    2006

    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

    Recommendations

    • 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.

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