Film
The Wicker Man/Whistle and I’ll Come to You
- Director
- Robin Hardy, Jonathan Miller
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 128 mins
Virginal Christian rozzer Edward Woodward arrives on a remote Scottish island to investigate a mysterious disappearance, only to encounter a pagan cult led by Christopher Lee, whose rites include much naked romping by Britt Ekland (that’s actually a stunt bottom, by the way, as Ms Ekland refused to expose her buns) and Ingrid Pitt. The finest British horror flick and the best advertisement for Paganism ever made. A flop on release, it has deservedly become a cult item.
This perfect Halloween sceening is a folk horror double-bill with Jonathan Miller‘s haunting 1968 BBC adaptation of M.R. James’s Whistle and I’ll Come to You, starring Michael Horden.
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