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Wicker Man, The
Warner Bros. Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for disturbing images and violence, language and thematic issues
Starring
Nicolas Cage,
Ellen Burstyn,
Kate Beahan,
Frances Conroy,
Molly Parker,
Leelee Sobieski,
Diane Delano,
and
Michael Wiseman
In Neil LaBute's remake of the 1973 horror classic, Nicolas Cage stars as a sheriff investigating a young girl's disappearance from an isolated, mysterious island.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Horror
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Mystery
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Neil LaBute
Anthony Shaffer (1973 screenplay)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Neil LaBute
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 19, 2006
Theatrical: September 1, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Germany / USA |

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75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Profoundly disturbing, blood-chilling suspenser.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Despite its logy, red-herring structure, the film has enough enigma and weirdness that it gradually stirs to life.

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
As it is, LaBute has cleverly repurposed his creepy source material. This Wicker Man, which wasn't screened for critics, is a nutty atonement for the gender assaults of his filmmaking and playwriting past, including "In the Company of Men," "Your Friends & Neighbors," and "The Shape of Things."

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Well intentioned, but only occasionally creepy.

50
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
In the end, LaBute's remake is an interesting idea that never transforms into a particularly satisfying movie.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
For this remake writer-director Neil LaBute has moved the action from Scotland to Washington State, added enough scares for Warner Brothers to market the movie as horror, and turned the story into an almost comically Wagnerian expression of the castration anxiety that snakes through his original screenplays.

42
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The Wicker Man is too loony to be a drama, too earnest to be a comedy, too predictable to be a horror film.

40
LA Weekly
Michael Atkinson
This wasn't a horror film the first time around, and LaBute makes sorry feints at effective creepiness, letting the story roam in circles just like Cage.

40
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
In an era of careful cost accountancy and focus-group testing, it's remarkable that a movie as truly, deeply, madly foolish as The Wicker Man escaped the asylum. But we must be grateful for the endless guffaws and gasps and outright stunned silences it unleashes on lucky audiences.

40
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
The Wicker Man isn't all that bad a movie; it's visually striking and ambitious in some ways. It just fails to bring enough to the table to fully distance itself from the original.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Unlikely to inspire a passionate following similar to the original, the film, which opened Friday without being screened for the press, ultimately induces more titters than dread.

40
Variety
Joe Leydon
Any provocative questions LaBute might have wanted to raise are totally obscured as the rising tide of absurdity gradually overwhelms the entire enterprise.

38
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
There may be a way to remake 1973's cult thriller The Wicker Man, in which a deeply Christian cop has his religious convictions shaken to the core as he investigates the disappearance of a child from within a cheerfully pagan community, but Neil LaBute didn't find it.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
As an allegory of religious conflict, the '73 film is brilliantly constructed and ends with a punctuation mark that was shocking in its day. LaBute's movie attempts to shock, as well, and does: Given the names involved and the casting of Cage, it is shockingly bad.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
LaBute has transformed the eerie, disturbing psychological thriller into an unintentional comedy. At times, The Wicker Man is hilariously bad.

33
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
Turns a cultishly creepy classic into a dull and windy farce.

30
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
A movie like this can survive an absurd premise but not incompetent execution. And Mr. LaBute, never much of an artist with the camera, proves almost comically inept as a horror-movie technician...It's neither haunting nor amusing; just boring.

25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jennie Punter
The Wicker Man is one of those "what were they thinking?" movies.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Do yourself a favor: Go rent Hardy's original film, watch it, and then try and get it out of your head. You never, ever will.


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