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30 June 2008 10:35 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Release year: 1973

The players: Director: Robin Hardy, Writer: Anthony Shaffer, Cast: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland

The plot: After receiving report of a missing girl, Sergeant Howie travels to mysterious Summerisle to search for her with little help from the locals.

Modern thoughts on a classic movie: How this film ever became a cult horror classic will remain a mystery. "The Wicker Man" starts off with an intriguing plot, but it quickly dissolves into nothing more than a folksy music video.

Upon Sergeant Howie’s arrival to the island of Summerisle, things automatically take a strange turn when all of the island’s inhabitants claim to never have seen the girl in the photo sent to Howie. As Howie follows strange clues that are few and far between, he delves deeper into a world of neo-pagan lifestyle where the islanders have orgies in the middle of the

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29 April 2008 6:58 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The scrapped sequel to classic 1970s movie The Wicker Man was to star Joan Collins and Christopher Lee as evil cult leaders.

Collins reveals the production, which was due to start shooting in the Scottish Highlands this month, was to be directed by Robin Hardy, the man behind the original.

And she still hopes the film can go ahead. She tells Black Book magazine, "It's about two young people from America who are gospel singers. They go to a remote village in the Highlands to convert people to Christianity.

"They come in contact with an evil cult led by two people. One of them is Christopher Lee, and the other one is me."

Lee played the villain in the original film, which starred Edward Woodward.

The sequel was scrapped last month due to "financial difficulties".

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24 March 2008 1:17 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Christopher Lee, Joan Collins, Graham McTavish, Paul Wesley, Susie Amy, Morgan James and Natalie Parnes will all star in Robin Hardy's Cowboys for Christ, Hardy's reimagining of his eerie 1973 film, The Wicker Man. Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland . When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are. Shooting begins April 10 in Dumfries, Scotland. Read on for a look at some art.

3 articles from 2008