![]() ![]() While the picturesque Scottish locations are authentic, the locals speak a preposterous polyglot gumbo of accents. Lee is the chief offender here, closely followed by Lindsay Kemp – former mentor and lover of David Bowie – as a camp pub landlord. Watched today, however, some of the performances look comically hammy. ![]() In some scenes it feels like a psychedelic hippie musical, in others a creepy soft-porn thriller. ![]() The film’s spellbinding score of haunted folk ballads, composed and arranged by transplanted American songwriter Paul Giovanni, has also earned evergreen cool status among generations of bearded acoustic hipsters. The notion of a spiritually inclined death cult run by a charismatic guru has since acquired plenty of real-life parallels, from Jim Jones to David Koresh to Osama Bin Laden. Initially an obscure midnight movie, The Wicker Man has become more culturally resonant during its 40-year afterlife. ![]()
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