A rare thing indeed, this movie : a decent religious film. It's just a shame it cops out in the end by reducing the islanders to murderers. The music makes the movie what it is more than anything else. As for Edward Woodward, that's got to be one of the best pieces of casting and acting in movies ever. A word of warning if you see the restored version : the footage looks like it comes from a release print or work print, not the original negative, consequently the quality is very noticeably inferior to the rest of the film, and there are at least two moments of restored footage that would have been better left out.
Review of The Wicker Man
