RFYL 257: The Wicker Man (1973)

So, we're going to start this off the way that we always do, with some production notes.

It was filmed in Scotland.

It was based on the story Ritual, a 1967 horror novel by David Pinner.

In 2006...

Robin Hardy wrote a follow-up novel titled Cowboys for Christ, colon, on May Day.

And there was a film, The Wicker Tree, that was based on that novel.

I have seen The Wicker Tree.

We won't cover it.

I think we'll leave it here.

I was looking into it.

It has the same IMDb rating as the Nicolas Cage remake of this movie.

Yeah.

Well, I think when I looked at them, they're both sitting at 3.8 on IMDb

right now.

And

this one is a 7.5, which, yeah, makes sense because this was good.

Yeah, Christopher Lee does make an appearance in...

The wicker tree.

But that might be the most special thing about that movie.

Having Robin Hardy involved in it, I thought, oh, this could be interesting.

Yeah, Cowboys for Christ is definitely, yeah, it's something.

That's what they should have called it.

They should have called the movie that and not tried to tie it to the wicker man.

There are other little spinoff type things that have come out.

over the last 50 years.

So, we're going to start this off the way that we always do, with some production notes.

It was filmed in Scotland.

It was based on the story Ritual, a 1967 horror novel by David Pinner.

In 2006...

Robin Hardy wrote a follow-up novel titled Cowboys for Christ, colon, on May Day.

And there was a film, The Wicker Tree, that was based on that novel.

I have seen The Wicker Tree.

We won't cover it.

I think we'll leave it here.

I was looking into it.

It has the same IMDb rating as the Nicolas Cage remake of this movie.

Yeah.

Well, I think when I looked at them, they're both sitting at 3.8 on IMDb

right now.

And

this one is a 7.5, which, yeah, makes sense because this was good.

Yeah, Christopher Lee does make an appearance in...

The wicker tree.

But that might be the most special thing about that movie.

Having Robin Hardy involved in it, I thought, oh, this could be interesting.

Yeah, Cowboys for Christ is definitely, yeah, it's something.

That's what they should have called it.

They should have called the movie that and not tried to tie it to the wicker man.

There are other little spinoff type things that have come out.

over the last 50 years.