Welcome to the The Wicker Man (1973) Wikia
The Wicker Man is a classic cult 1973 British movie filmed in Scotland. It combines thriller, existential horror and musical genres. Directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer, the film stars Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Britt Ekland. Paul Giovanni composed the soundtrack.
The Wicker Man is generally very highly regarded by critics. Film magazine Cinefantastique described it as "The Citizen Kane of Horror Movies", and in 2004 the magazine Total Film named The Wicker Man the sixth greatest British film of all time. It also won the 1978 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. A scene from this film was #45 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
This wiki
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Table of Contents
We currently have 165 pages. Click on the page count link to see all of the pages on this wiki. It will open to a page that has them alphabetically arranged.
Wikia's "categories" (similar to tags) for this wiki can be found here: Music (all of the pages that relate to music). More categories to come possibly, like behind the scenes, missing scenes, etc.
The contents for now include:
Audio recordings
Canal+ (via SIlva Screen)
Music on Vinyl
Silva Screen
Trunk Records
Behind the scenes
Movies, still pictures
Books/Academic papers
Cast and Crew
Documentaries and featurettes from DVDs and elsewhere
DVDs
Fan material
Nuada - The Wicker Man Journal
Dave Lally's map of Summerisle
Wicker Man Appreciation Society
Gallery
Collections of *some* of the pictures. Currently: "Behind the scenes pics", locations as they appear recently and "missing scene pics". More to come. To see ALL of the pics on this site, use the Images link under Explore at the top of each page.
Links
Locations in the film
Locations (real), arranged by location
See also the screencaps page which also list locations for each shot in the Director's Cut.
See also locations arranged by scene for each version.
See also Google Map with Street Views of as many locations as possible.
Missing scenes
( Missing scenes "shot or not" table.)
Howie at the hairdresser's during the house search
In the greenhouse and the experimental orchard
Mainland - bridge, pub, prostitute
Howie confronting May and Myrtle about Holly's clothes
Movie elements
Intros, outros, graphics, etc.
Movie fonts and logos
Music
General info (including links to individual songs and other music, reviews, covers, music inspired by, podcasts,and songbook, etc)
Info about the extended version aka the Director's Cut.
Info about the Theatrical version
Photographs seen in the movie
The pictures Howie looks at in the darkroom.
The pictures Lord Summerisle shows Howie.
The Harvest Festival photographs.
Posters
Press and Publicity
Current distributors, pressbook/campaign book, press photo info, negative numbers for press and on-site photos, John Brown's page (the official still photographer for the movie.), Lobby cards, newspaper articles (mostly Galloway Gazette), marketing materials (pressbooks, posters, trailers, radio spots), newspaper listings (mostly from newspapers.com)
Production info
Notes and Production/release timeline . See also Production documents below. See also Newspaper Listings, a list of theaters/cinemas, tv guides and some other sources showing when and where the film played in the UK, US and Australia.
Production documents
Call sheets
Seamus Flannery's set/scene index. (pic)
Movement orders
Lorraine Peters (bum double) contracts, October 13 and November 3, 1972.
Wicker Man drawings from Seamus Flannery or Robin Hardy.
Props
- Book about May Day Howie reads in the library
- Calendar in the darkroom
- The covered chair Lord Summerisle sits in when Howie enters the room
- John Barleycorn bread
- Lawnmower the gravekeeper uses
- Lennox's Pharmacy
- Masked villagers
- May Morrison's Sweet Shop (aka The Post Office/Tuck Shop)
- Names in the school register
- Organ stops
- Photographs seen in the movie - (The pictures Howie looks at in the darkroom, the pictures Lord Summerisle shows Howie, the Harvest Festival photographs).
- Police car on the mainland
- Pony trap Howie rides to Lord Summerisle's castle
- Rowboat with the evil eye
- Sailing ship (Schooner Summerisle) that Howie searches
- Seaplane
- Schoolroom blackboard
Religious doctrine
Christian and Lord Summerisle's paganism
Screencaps
Screencap of X rating from British Board of Censors.
Scripts
Full scripts including Ingrid Pitt's original script, Production materials
Sequels
1) Loathsome Lambton Worm - Shaffer's script that Hardy and other's didn't like which was never produced. (See also Brown's book for the script.) aka The Wicker Man II (See this pic for one of the cover pages.)
2) The Wicker Tree (produced)
3) The Wrath of the Gods (not produced but had been in production, Hardy died before if could be finished.)
The Wicker Man itself
Timeline
Planning, filming and everything after (aka Production/release timeline)
Tropes in the Wicker Man
Trivia
Versions
- Director's Cut (aka Extended or long version)
- Final Cut (aka Middle or Moviedrome version) (Watch it here. (Internet Archive version)
- Theatrical version (aka short version) (Watch it here, with Spanish subtitles on the Internet Archive)
- Version summaries (with dates from the movie)
- Locations for each version scene by scene as a chart
VHS (and other) tapes
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