Part of Midnight Movies
After receiving an anonymous letter about a missing 12-year-old girl, devoutly Christian police sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) travels by seaplane to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But the islanders welcome neither his badge nor religious devotion, for Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee) and his devoted followers worship only the pagan gods of old — and those gods demand a sacrifice. Howie fears for the missing girl’s life and follows every possible lead to find her — despite the islanders’ interference — before she becomes a human sacrificial lamb.
"Remains as bizarre and bewitching a fable as when it first appeared...once seen, never forgotten!"—Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter
“THE WICKER MAN is, more than anything else, a film about what people can do in the name of religion or, more generally, belief. Its power comes not from appeals to the supernatural but from a deep understanding of our own undeniable nature. Horror doesn't get much closer to home than that.” —Adam Smith, Empire Magazine