Why revamp The Wicker Man?

AT THE PHOENIX cinema, East Finchley, director Robin Hardy was fielding questions on his 1973 cult movie The Wicker Man, questions he’d most likely been asked dozens of times before. Yes, the film was initially a B-movie support to Don’t Look Now. Yes, Britt Ekland had a body double because she thought her bum was a bit “slopy”.

No, he hadn’t seen the re-make, due in British cinemas this week, “but” — he left a short, but quite deliberate, pause — “I have read the script”. The chill that filled the auditorium couldn’t have been more pronounced if Christopher Lee had walked in with a tray of ice cream. The second Wicker Man is directed by Neil LaBute, no mug, someone who made his name with Your Friends and Neighbours and In the Company of Men, both darkly shocking films.

It stars Nicolas Cage and Ellen Burstyn, both good actors. Still, it’ll be awful, an embarrassment. Without seeing the film, everyone who has seen the original knows this to be true.

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