The Wicker Man
Robin Hardy • 2000
Devastation Rating
cults horror literary fiction psychological
Our Take
A policeman arrives on a remote Scottish island to find a missing girl and discovers a pagan community that has been waiting for him. Hardy novelises the folk horror with meticulous dread. The final scene is one of the most terrifying acts of devotion in fiction.
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