(Based on and used with permission from the wicker-man.com site which was written circa mid-2000s.)
They shot here from Oct 9 - 12, 1972.
See this Google aerial map for the locations.
Plockton is a small coastal village situated in the Scottish Highlands. Shots of Summerisle harbour and seafront were filmed here as well as the house search.
The Plockton buildings seen in the movie are still standing as they were at the time of filming. Of main interest is the building that served as the harbour master's house, together with the small pier area where Howie first meets the islanders. (Tigh-an-Rudha) Here we can also find the wall where the same people ( this time wearing animal masks ) peer over at Howie's failed attempt to leave the island. The flagpole seen in the film is still there. The scene of the girl who fell out of the closet was shot here as well, in the middle bedroom. (Jane Cameron's father remembers her father telling her this.) See this shot. Rhoda Macleod is her name. The carpet matches the shot of the doll in the box so that was shot there too.
Near to the harbour masters house is the causeway where Howie made his way towards Summerisle village.
Plockton's main street is seen shortly after Howie's arrival on the island. (Here is where the shot of the garden is.)
Some of the shots of Howie trying to start his plane were filmed in Plockton. Some shots in that scene were filmed in Stranraer though. (Noticing how far away the shore is and a pier in the background will help distinguish them.)
One of these buildings is also seen during the house-search for Rowan, in particular when Howie instructs two children to take their animal masks off. It is called Sannachan. The name can be seen above the door. The red house that Howie walks down the steps to is behind Sannachan. (The steps were built by Plockton resident Calum Mackenzie.)
Here are Caroline Maclennon and Fay MacAskill. They are also seen wearing the same clothes in the pan of the buildings by the harbor when Howie waits to be picked up when he first arrives there. Another girl is seen in a window to the left of them during that shot too.
During the house search (in the Director's Cut only) Howie walks up some steep steps and then falls down some interior stairs surprising some women who are half-dressed and ironing. That house is below. It's an old photo from the 1920s. The door has since been turned into a window. It is next to Tigh-an-Rhudh, where the harbor master lived and is called Salaan.
The scene of the woman at the spinning wheel where Howie sees the ship in the harbor was of Sandra Macdonald on the second floor of Tullochard, which is next to the "thatched cottage", An Taigh Dubh and the harbour master's, Tigh-an-Rhudh, at the end of Cooper St. (screencap)
The 'evil eye' rowing boat , which belonged to Plockton resident Kenny John Mackenzie who appears in the film as one of the old fishermen (ID'd in this pic), was destroyed in a storm. The owner did, however, manage to retrieve one of the eyes from the wreckage and has taken it with him to his new home in England. Also of interest in the Scottish Highlands is the nearby island of Skye, which can be seen in the film's opening title sequence.
This view is briefly seen in the theatrical and Final Cut versions.
- A behind the scenes shots taken in Plockon,
For more information on Plockton itself, visit http://www.plockton.com