Synopsis
Some sacrifices must be made
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.
2006 Directed by Neil LaBute
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.
Nicolas Cage Ellen Burstyn Kate Beahan Frances Conroy Leelee Sobieski Molly Parker Diane Delano Michael Wiseman Christa Campbell Emily Holmes Matthew Walker Mary Black Christine Willes Tania Saulnier James Franco Jason Ritter Aaron Eckhart Erika-Shaye Gair Zemphira Gosling Sophie Hough David Purvis Xantha Radley Anna Van Hooft Moraea Bieber Jayda Bieber Talia Ranger Kendall Cross Simon Longmore Andre Danyliu Show All…
Nicolas Cage JoAnne Sellar Boaz Davidson Avi Lerner George Furla Randall Emmett Norman Golightly John Thompson Trevor Short Danny Dimbort Elisa Salinas Josef Lautenschlager Andreas Thiesmeyer Jochen Kamlah
Warner Bros. Pictures Saturn Films Nu Image Millennium Films Brightlight Pictures Alcon Entertainment EFO Films Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG III Redbus Pictures Wicker Man Productions LDMP
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bitches ! you BITCHES ! THIS IS MURDER! *MURDER!* YOU'LL ALL BE GUILTY! and you're doing it for NOTHING!..... killing me won't bring back your GODDAMN HONEY! ARRRRRRRRRRRGH........ ooooooohhh.... i don't get it......... i'm not one of you..... i don't BELIEVE in your god !! i don't believe in sacrifice........ ARRRRRRRRGh......... oooooohhwww......... ohhhhwwww......... oH NO DONT MOVE ME AHHHHHHHHH WHA-AWWWWWWWW !! what is it? what is it? wha-what is it what IS IT WHAT IS IT?!!! OH NO NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEEEEEEEEES! AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! OH THEYRE IN MY EYES! MY EYES!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!! AHHHHHHHHHGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!......................................... oh god........ oh mai gawd..... OH MAI GAWD
I want you to imagine a world where another one of the classic psychological thrillers of the 20th century, The Silence of the Lambs, was remade in a similarly terrible fashion to this. This is how the classic 'Lambs' scene between Clarice and Lecter would pan out...
Lecter: After your father's murder, you were orphaned, you were 10 years old. You went to live with cousins on a sheep and horse ranch in Montana. And?...
Clarice:...and one morning I just ran away.
Lecter: Not 'just', Clarice. What set you off? You started at what time?
Clarice: Early, still dark.
Lecter: Then something woke you, didn't it? Was it a dream? What was it?
Clarice: I heard a strange noise.
Lecter:…
I'm not going to bat for this as some hidden success just waiting to be reclaimed, but it's a lot more interesting than its idiotic "so bad it's good" reputation would suggest. It definitely has a tough time juggling some pretty disparate tones, but that awkwardness also goes a long way in keeping things off-balance, unsettling. Not even setting aside bits that are clearly intentionally humorous, Cage in particular is pretty terrific (at least I think so, but I gather there's some debate) as a rigid cop traumatized on two fronts, both by the horrible incident that opens the movie and his sad mistrust of women, and his ability to behave rationally disintegrates along with his authority.
While The Wicker Man is really atrocious, it manages to entertain the audience with a couple of unintentionally hilarious moments and an “inspired” performance from Nicolas Cage. This is the worst film I’ve seen him in by far. It’s supposed to work as a suspense thriller but apart from one scene that was a bit creepy, nothing is remotely convincing or intriguing. The constant use of flashbacks was annoying and the hallucination sequences turned to be funny instead of disturbing. The performances were horrendous all around and Cage hit another really low point in his career with this work. For the most part, The Wicker Man is boring and just plain terrible, but at least the last portion presents us with some of the most outrageously funny sequences in the history of cinema.
I absolutely adore this film; of course for its utter atrociousness and Nic Cage being crazy Nic Cage.
As a genuine fan of the original I would love nothing more to write this remake off for all of its faults, and that's exactly what I would have done, if it wasn't for Nicolas Cage.
What is better than crazy Nic Cage punching women and overreacting to CG bees? Nothing. Literally. Nothing. Seriously. There. Is. Nothing. Ever.
He pulls out trash that should have been left in the garbage covered in last weeks left over Chinese food, and kicks its ass into the realm of brilliance and immortality.
Nic Cage personally earns himself a full five stars for this masterpiece as he, single-handedly, eclipses any fault to be beheld.
Oh, and Nostalgia Critics "Bear Jokes" www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSiMnPAt1BY
if the entire 102 minute runtime of this movie consisted only of what happened in the last 30 minutes the film would improve GREATLY
exhausted and angry, i finally collapse somewhere quiet in my school. it's 6 pm. my friend and i look deeply at each other. we are drained from this terrible day ; we know what we have to do.
as always, when we are going through rough patches, we decide to watch a nicolas cage movie in order to believe in the beauty of life again.
we look at her black computer screen, wondering. what should we pick? why not the wicker man? there's that fun scene with bees in it. that's exactly what we need.
two hours later.
my friend and i lay broken on the floor. we're too empty to cry. the movie was so bad. horrible. a burning…
“we’re different here. if you’ve grown up around it, it’s one thing. but we’re odd.”
i had a sneaking suspicion that the internet’s desire to apotheosize this into one of cinema’s great mockable trashterpieces might be due to a fundamental misreading of the film. that’s not necessarily anyone’s fault; it’s moreso that most people don’t have the emotional baggage or lived experience to see what it seems (to me, at least) labute is doing.
in some respects, this plays like a knockoff of THE VILLAGE, but it’s actually more like THE HAPPENING. it’s not just that both films are led by bizarre, histrionic performances by often derided stars that confound our assumptions about “good acting”, but they’re also both easier…
Robin Hardy's original The Wicker Man was about a secret society which required a man who conformed to a certain ideal. They needed a Fool, and only by putting the officer charged with investigating reports of a missing young girl through a social experiment could they determine whether or not he fit the description. Neil LaBute's remake takes this idea one step further: it creates in Nicolas Cage a Fool so incredibly foolish that the film has become a cult "so bad, it's good" classic.
It was always going to be difficult to recreate the subtle and precise atmosphere which made the original installment unnerving. The film had to construct a society which was unbelievably strange and at the same…