The Wicker Man

Robin Hardy 2000

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
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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