The Wicker Man

[GTRMAN]

In this '70s horror/thriller Christopher Lee wears a kilt in a particularly long scene.. I wonder if the remake that comes out next month(with Nicolas Cage) will feature a kilt in any scenes?!?!

[Master Boid]

Is the remake going to be filmed in Scotland like the original? Or is it going to be hollywooded and located somewhere in America?

[Colin]

I saw a preview a few days ago and got the impression it was now in America. Yet another ratty looking hair piece for Cage I see.

http://thewickermanmovie.warnerbros.com/wickerman.html

In this '70s horror/thriller Christopher Lee wears a kilt in a particularly long scene.. I wonder if the remake that comes out next month(with Nicolas Cage) will feature a kilt in any scenes?!?!

[Schultz]

The new film is a FAR cry from the original.

It's in America.

It's really playing up the "supernatural" element.

It has Nic Cage and NOT Christopher Lee.

I don't think there will be any mention of all between the religio-cultural clash between the policeman and the islanders, which was part of the reason why the original film was so suspenseful.

Mind you, I haven't seen it, but I'm not enthused at this point to see it, and I love the original.

As an aside, a good friend of mine, upon seeing a picture of me in a kilt for the first time, said, "Lord Summerisle requests your presence!"

[GTRMAN]

Wow.. I forgot about something... There were at least TWO scenes where Lee is wearing a kilt.. HMmm.. Looks like I'll have to watch it again...

Cage is not playing Lord Summerisle(or equivalent) as Lee did.. It appears that he's playing the part of Lt. Howie (Edward Woodward).

[An t-Ileach]

Couldn't they at least have located it in North Carolina somewhere near Grandfather Mountain?

[Big Paul]

I saw a preview a few days ago and got the impression it was now in America. Yet another ratty looking hair piece for Cage I see.

http://thewickermanmovie.warnerbros.com/wickerman.html

I wiil be sure to add this to my collection!! Thanks!

[Nick]

Creepy, man...I watched the original last night and was going to post about it when I logged in just now.

Creepy


There are a whole lot of kilts in the last scenes.

[auld argonian]

six degrees of Christopher Lee....

...we were watching Star Wars Part Two last night and the conversation turned to how robust Chris Lee was (and hopefully still is) for a man in his eighties...I love the old Hammer horror films...Lee and Peter Cushing...what a team.

Somebody please let the young folks know that this is yet another remake.
I note that the original went on sale at Best Buy/Circuit City this weekend...priced to sell on DVD.

Also note that Lee is something like 6' 5"...that must have been one long kilt.

Now I'll have to get this just as an homage:

http://www.hammerfilms.com/acatalog/...d_T-shirt.html


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[TechBear]

To sum up my reaction: Don't bother.

The main story is not bad, and the movie is decent until Cage's character reaches Summerisle, set for some odd reason on one of the islands in the Puget Sound. The society of Summerisle is intruiging at first -- why are there only women and where are all the men? -- but the absurdities pile up very quickly and by the end, I found myself thinking that being roasted alive is a better fate than seeing the movie again.

The next day, I sat down to watch the extended release of the original, and even knowing the plot well, I was still creeped out by the last 20 minutes.

Sadly, no kilts in the remake, not even short skirts on the women. If you want kilts (and a decent movie, especially given the difficulties surrounding its filming), definitely watch the 1973 version, the extended release if you can find it. The first scene at the Green Man tavern shows a big guy wearing a kilt, and the procession through the village and orchards towards the end has many of the men in kilts (and they are regimental, too, as can be seen when they are spinning around wielding claymores in mock battle.)