Flesh to touch...Flesh to burn! Don't keep the Wicker Man waiting!
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.
Screenplay
Anthony Shaffer
n/a
Release date
December 1, 1973
Top billed cast
Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Diane Cilento
Production companies
British Lion Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
Keywords
scotland, based on novel or book, cemetery, island, virgin, sacrifice, ritual, investigation, cult, human sacrifice, disappearance, rural area, paganism, policeman, cult film, psychotronic, voyeurism, may day, folk horror, sea plane, harvest festival
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