The Wicker Man (1973) is a British folk-horror film. Directed by Robin Hardy, the film’s storyline is about a Sergeant’s efforts to assess the disappearance of a young girl on a remote but eerie ...

The influential horror movie The Wicker Man came out Dec. 6, 1973. It eventually inspired an entire subgenre known as "folk horror," including films such as 2019's acclaimed Midsommer. But when it was ...

Who was it that said cult movies are never quite as good as their fans believe them to be? While it wasn’t Danny Peary, the film scholar and sports journalist, his “Cult Movies,” a three-volume set of ...

“The Wicker Man” lives again. This cult classic 1973 British film, long distributed in a variety of severely edited states, is now available in a 40th-anniversary restoration at the Nuart Theatre that ...

This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1973 film The Wicker Man. When I think of it, the words come to mind from Frank Zappa’s song “Brown Shoes Don’t Make It” (on the 1967 album Absolutely Free ...

When Chris isn’t working on a new article or exploring the best nature spots nearby, he's gotten into making TikTok edits. While he works on other personal projects, he has turned his attention to ...

The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...

With his seaplane, Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) lands just off the island of Summerisle. Previously, he had received a letter requesting his assistance in searching for the missing girl May ...

Luna Guthrie is a Movie Features Editor for Collider, writer and film critic. She began as a writer for Collider in 2021 and joined the editorial team in 2024. She has a bachelor's degree in ...

The Wicker Man, from 1973, was directed by Robin Hardy. The influential horror movie The Wicker Man came out Dec. 6, 1973. It eventually inspired an entire subgenre known as "folk horror," including ...