The Wicker Man Revisited

I think I may have mentioned The Wicker Man on here before. It's an awesome thriller/horror movie from 1973 about a police officer who goes to investigate the disappearance of a little girl on an isolated little island and discovers a crazy cult. There's all this stuff about religion and authority and whatnot and it's a very clever little movie and creepy as can be. Then in 2006 somebody went and remade it, cast Nicholas Cage as the police dude, and changed the setting from Britain to the Pacific Northwest, replacing the weirdo pagans and all the accompanying religious stuff that made the original interesting with some sort of generic feminist cult, messing up the continuity of the story in the process. Anyway, the remake is sort of legendarily bad, I guess, and I finally got to see it last night. Here's a clip I think I linked to before of Cage dressed in a bear suit punching a woman in the face. The music is added. And another funny edited clip. Anyway, it's ridiculous and you should see it. The whole first half of the movie or so is really just boring and completely lacking in the atmosphere of the original, but once he starts punching women in the face, it really picks up. The writers also clearly didn't think through their changing of the setting at the ending because it no longer makes sense. Also, bees!