The Wicker Man Trilogy Complete - And Tradition Throws Us a Bargain
Now amongst the finest horror films with a Scottish location and theme is the doughty favourite The Wicker Man which first hit our cinema screens in the early 1970s and which despite modest success at the time has grown and grown over the decades into a cinematic icon. The film was even more of a horror to make and its stars were not always paid by the director Robin Hardy. The Wicker Man is a film about a devout Christian police sergeant who travels to a remote Scottish island to find a missing girl, only to discover the locals practice a dark pagan ritual. He looks for a missing girl but the islanders claim the child has never existed. It turns out residents have abandoned Christianity for Celtic paganism. Too late the copper realises that he has been lured to the islands to be a human sacrifice to protect the crops and ensure the success of the harvest. It has a star studded cast with the wonderful Christopher Lee, the glamorous Britt Ekland and Edward Woodward as the policeman victim.
It was always intended as a trilogy of films, but the extreme birth and relative lack of immediate success at the box office. There’s a site called box office mojo that shows all the earnings of movies and this film was by any standards a flop, or should I say a slow burner. The film was such an initial bomb that the director went bankrupt and left his family and became something of a pariah. But as in all Hollywood stories he never gave up and the late success of the movie meant he could slowly develop the trilogy. In 2011 The Wicker Tree was released, but again something of a flop. But in the best traditions of the Scottish icon Robert the Bruce and his spider the director’s sons have now completed the trilogy for premiering at the FrightFest horror festival. The sons found an attic treasure trove of archive materials that enabled the making of the film in Shetland in the spring of 2025 and now with the movie Wrath of the God the saga has drawn to an end, finishing the original concept and the trilogy is complete.
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