It has been described as the Citizen Kane of horror movies - and one of the worst films ever made.
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"In contemporary terms, that would be like a Steven Spielberg film going straight to video, virtually unthinkable," wrote Edward Woodward, who played the police officer, in the foreword to Allan Brown's book Inside The Wicker Man.It was reborn in small second-run cinemas, on TV, on video and DVD, and over the years its reputation grew.
The director Robin Hardy, who died in 2016, had a complicated private life. He had five wives and eight children, two of whom spoke at last weekend's showing. Despite decades of inspiring other films, documentaries, books and theses, material about their dad and the making of the film is still coming to light."She said: 'Should I burn them?'"And to celebrate the anniversary, as well as the traditional pagan May Day festival, a new Wicker Man was burned this week.Created by artist Amanda Sunderland, it stood 15ft tall - a quarter of the one featured in the film - and met its end on the same site at Burrowhead, near Isle of Whithorn.
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