The influential horror movie The Wicker Man came out Dec. 6, 1973. It eventually inspired an entire subgenre known as "folk horror," including films such as 2019's acclaimed Midsommer. But when it ...

Crime thriller, disturbing fantasy, or folk horror – the 1973 cult hit The Wicker Man refuses categorisation. For a low-budget film that its own studio head reportedly described as one of the ...

Fifty years ago this week, the film The Wicker Man was test-screened to the public for the first time. Shot in haste on a small budget, its production badly beset by weather and studio politics ...

Was Britain’s new monarch hinting that he was a pagan? Or was he referring to the Green Man Inn in “The Wicker Man”, a classic British film which was released 50 years ago, in December 1973?

A devout Christian and serious-minded man of the law, he is mocked and tricked from the minute he steps on land to the moment he is carried into a giant wicker effigy to meet his grisly end while ...

After a troubled history that saw it hacked to pieces for US audiences, The Wicker Man (1973) has won its place as "one of the best British horror films" ever made. Edward Woodward stars as a God ...