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"The Wicker Man"

I got to watch a film I’d always wanted to see for years over the holiday.
The Wicker Man.
I’ve read a bunch of stuff about this movie and watched the documentary a few nights before by Mark Kermode (that dude knows his films). It looked cool, interviews with Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee etc about how disturbing etc they found it and the lack of audience.
Now I know The Wicker Man is a cult movie, and that usually means I’ll like it.
So I sat down with my big bag of chips’n’dip and settled in to watch this classic “British Cult Horror”.
And it was bad.
I mean really, a***-clenchingly terrible.

Plot?
Edward Woodwardwoodward is a hardcore Christian police dude that receives a letter from someone on a remote Scottish island, talking about the disappearance of a little girl.
He goes over there, locals are strange and unwelcoming and…well…that’s about it.
Christopher Lee plays a Lord of the Manor with a penchant for walking about in a dress and wig whilst chunky thighed maidens run through the orchard naked.
Edwardwoodwardowood wanders about getting moody because the islanders are heathens, Christopher smiles a lot and wears more dresses and Britt Ekland decides to dance naked in her room (this bit is the only good bit of this movie).
And there’s lots of singing.
And men with whiskery faces looking suspicious.
Finally, after 90mins of singing ugly-naked people, Edwardwoodwardwoodward is taken by the heathens and burnt in a big wicker man because then the island’s apples will grow nicer next year.

It really is a bad film.
Just lots of singing islanders, Christopher Lee in a dress and Edwardwardwoodward shouting about “Jesus” whilst he keeps finding dead rabbits and stuff in his shoes.
I was so disappointed with this movie, I’d heard quite a lot of good things about it.
But it’s bloody awful.
Imagine going to watch a children’s nativity play doing a “League of Gentlemen” episode, but leaving out the menace and humour.
Just naked dancing scottish folk and Christopher Lee in drag.

Rubbish.

According to the Wicker man documentary Brit Eckland went topless but didn't do the 'bum' shots.

*shrugs*

So it's just me then.
Fair enough.

I watched it and I thought it was one of the best films I've ever seen. The religious theme interested me and I was gripped all the way through. I did think that the island people looked too 'normal' to be believable, but other than that I loved it. I think the music really added to the film.

Dances naked, eh?

I should've watched it when I had the chance, dammit.

:-D

Sorry to disappoint you but it really isn't Britt Ekland dancing naked in the film. It was actually a body double called Jane Jackson. She is a Scottish woman of 54 and at the time of the filming of the film was 26. Britt didn't want to be filmed naked so the role was given to Jane to do.

A lot of people think it was actually Britt naked, including Cubby Broccoli, as he signed up Britt to become a Bond girl in the film The Man With The Golden Gun on the account of the actress' bum in the film, even though it was Jane.

My sister got the Wicker Man for christmas - First time Ive seen it, thought it was brilliant!!

I think it's on S4C soon... the Welsh Channel 4. I'll watch it, or at least start to watch it.

Not that I don't doubt your opinion, I just want to watch as many films as I can.

Well. Films that I want to see, anyway.

LOL

Naked Dancing Scottish people...

Just go to Govan on a Friday night...

Is she Britt Ekland?
If so, I've seen your girlfriend's baps

hur hur

I, unfortunately, didn't watch it for that long. I think it would have offended my g'friend though.