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I'm surprised this movie isn't in the criterion collection also I agree this does deserve a remake I think the director of the dune movies would be a fantastic choice maybe he will when he's done with dune

I literally had this DVD delivered to my house by Netflix.

i can't believe that you have only 798 subscribers you deserve more, good editing and good review keep going.

it needs a restoration, not a remake

Lol, folks thinking a remake somehow changes the original.

The is called Star Trek not star was

If you look at modern cinema, only specific filmmakers could do this justice. Honestly, you would need Chivo as DP to begin with... I don't know who could effectively tackle the emotions and tone. It would need to be an odd match. Paul W. S. Anderson directing, Chivo DP, with Michael Bay producing, from a Terrence Malik script. That's what it might need, but because that's too many conflicting creatives, it would need to be one individual who can capture all of those tones, and bring personal pain and frustration and hope and dreams to it. So...

You would need a director willing to do for this film what Peter Jackson did for LOTR. A faithful rendition of Zulawskis work as opposed to some other directors interpretation and retelling. I think this is one that really needs to be respected and should honour the vision that was robbed. My fear would be that modern Hollywood might be incapable of doing that.

omg is Andrew Vayda

The only one who should be entrusted with a Żuławski remake is his son Xawery.

No American Remake.

It was an exhausting search but in the end i've found this film in BluRay 1080p! just uploaded to our channel

in my opinion, the people who were responsible for the production of the "dune" should be made "on the silver globe". „diune” (especially second part) is phenomenal, so denis villeneuve could create a masterpiece ❤

not just like an oil spill, the shimmer looks like shroom vision

How about giving proper credit, William Shatner was on STAR TREK not Stargate. If you're going to do content like this get the background right.

Glad you chose this version instead of "NOT THE BEES"!

After listening to your summary and everything else, you completely sold me on this movie. In fact, this is kind of a sci-fi epic that only a few people have dared to make that I've wanted to see.

Only bad movies need remaking

In the book Hanlin WAS the murderer: ‘Don’t you worry, Hanlin. We’ve caught the murderer,’ Thornton said, quietly. ‘The children saw it happen. The fellow was schizophrenic. Suffered from sun madness. Most of them go nutty by moonlight but the sun got him. So don’t you worry.’ David is very glad. He enjoys being a librarian. It is so pleasant in the white room. He has arrived. Ritual by David Pinnar He was mad, he had gone to the village on his own, without his superior's knowledge, on the edge of retirement, thinking the first child death (an accidental fall from a tree) was part of a serial killer's killing spree, the joke was he was tracking himself, he was the murderer all along, twisted by his puritanical views of modern society, his schizophrenia and sun sensitivity, the towns folk were mean and pagan and thoroughly unlikable, even th children were mean, but they did not frame him. He was nuts.

Wow. The black and white footage makes the film pop out more than l thought it would. Your work?

All he had to do was break down make love to the very beautiful Willow and he would have been saved 🤦🏻‍♂️

Nothing to say about Summer is icummen in? Pity. It's a good song and a great scene.

The Cornetto Trilogy had stepwise depreciating returns, both narrative and comedic; I grew up loving OG Wicker Man, but also grew to question it. Neil LaBute's WM was a revelation, & deserves to be enshrined as the most poignant film of the zeitgeist; he eliminated patriarchy & crossdressing males right under the radar.

Unfortunately, I have not watched this but the remake! I hate it when I watch something only to find out. It’s just a remake. For example, the house on haunted Hill! It happened growing up, but being a big movie person “used to anyways” Especially with horror. Rarely do I come across the movie that I haven’t already seen the original “which is most often the better one”! Some movies leave alone you don’t need to remake it! I get it. Imagination is a rare thing along with original ideals! But in an era where remakes seem to be all we get. It often leaves me pondering, will there ever be another boom in cinema like in the 80s and 90s? Directors that don’t take a knee to anyone! The Kubrick’s, Scorsese’s,Tarantino’s, Carpenter’s etc! In 23 now 24 the way things are going I don’t know fool. (I don’t know why they just popped in my head, Coolio made a catchy song though)

Shame you had to colour your critique, which is largely pretty decent, with your belief system which is idiotic regarding Paganism.

The first time you read O. Henry in your life you'll realize the author's short stories were determined to kind of judo-flip your brain and stun it with all the outrageous consequences that you never once saw coming. I was reading his short stories in 8th grade and couldn't get enough of it. All O. Henry fans who watched "The Wicker Man" praised it as O. Henry himself would have, I'm sure.

The music is the best. When they are si ging and dudes dying is the wicked

Great video, friend. I saw this movie pretty late in life considering that I am now 44 - I bought a copy at Kmart (RIP) when I was 23 near Halloween, when they had big displays of classic horror films for sale. I think the music does an exceptional job at building the mood. The "Corndrakes and Barley Rigs" intro is so odd...it's unabashedly bright and clear, but holds such a melancholic undertone somehow. Nobody could out-villain Christopher Lee.

One of my favorite movies I watched this as often as I can

5:52 can anyone tell me the name of the song??

Well done my good sir, your style is impeccable and you did the wicker man and all film for that matter, justice with this beautiful video essay on one of my favorite films of all time. Thank you sir!

Miloš Miloš (born Miloš Milošević) wasnt Hungarian but Serbian.

The song the topless girl sings while trying to seduce Howie is really good.

To see Sergeant Howie SCREAM in TERROR!! when seeing the wicker man is truly the most horrific scene in horror films 🎥💞 I still have the vhs for this film!!✨🌟 true horror this film is.. Shows how evil people in cults what they truly believe in are!!✨🌈🌟

The Cave Chase song, although obviously sounding like 1970s police detective music, does incorporate folk music. The Scottish folk song "The Haughs O' Cromdale" is incorporated in the song.

Original was great, remake is a stinkeroo.

This keeps coming up in my feed, I'll watch.

Great vid on a classic

I am kind of over genre subversion. Actually subversion of all stories. It's too expected these days.

No. It doesn't need to be remade. It needs to be seen. A dumbed down version would just be it: a dumbed down version. And it would fail. The closest thing to OTSG that came to streaming media, Raised By Wolves, was cancelled after two seasons and never finished. Dune is just a fluke.

Check out The Devil's Backbone that films has about 3 genres going on at once.

The ritual procession is based almost entirely on "Obby Oss Festival" from the North Cornish town of Padstow.

Excellent and insightful analysis. A film which is a prime example of ‘genre-hopping’ is the 2014 Wild Tales. This wicked anthology is deranged, satirical and imbued with bible black humour with the six tales gloriously stomping on traditional tropes.

Interesting. Another possible comparison - Eyes Wide Shut?

Star Gate?! There was another Incubus movie from the early 70s about an extremely endowed demon raping women to death.

Thanks for this. The Wockerman burns still! Did you ever read the novelisation?

I don't get how it's not obvious. Your theory is closer, and I think is valid, but the *moment* Howie walks onto the soil of Summerisle, he was on a path to the end. They tell him to turn away then; they tell him to turn away in the pub; they sent their most talented seductress to ensure that he may still be a fool, and the jester, but no longer the innocent. Every. Single. Step he takes is made difficult, people misdirecting, people outright lying, and all with the sole purpose of getting him off the island. And after everything, every single rope they put in his way to stumble over, he doggedly continued. He chose his own fate. And those on Summerisle went to a great deal of effort to give him another choice.

I was lucky enough to have this in our meager vhs collection growing up. I had no idea it was so slept on until recently. This film is mandatory for anyone interested in film.

I’ve always like the genre flipping in David lynch movies. I’d like knowing more movies that do this

This film is practically the ultimate nerd research rabbit hole. It stars one of the most prominent sci-fi actors of all time (who was in Star Trek and The Twilight Zone) and it’s the first (and to date the only*) Esperanto film. *Edit - first of two films in Esperanto. I guess the better phrase is the first well-known film in Esperanto.