The Wicker Man is a series of two horror films directed by British author and director Robin Hardy.
The film was directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer, who based his screenplay loosely on the David Pinner novel Ritual.
The story follows a Scottish police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward), who visits the isolated island of Summerisle in the search for a missing girl named Rowan Morrison.
Howie discovers that the pagans, led by their laird, Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee), are planning a virgin sacrifice in the hopes that it will appease the gods and restore their crops.
Believing that Rowan Morrison will be sacrificed, Howie strives to rescue her, only to discover that her supposed disappearance was just a ploy to lure him to the island.
It was the second highest ordered DVD on Amazon for the first three months after its release, a fact that director Robin Hardy was very proud of.
[8] The main antagonist of The Wrath of the Gods is Mr Odin, a one-eyed Hollywood studio executive who decides to create a theme park based on the Norse sagas which originated in Iceland.
[8] In a 2013 Q&A session at the University of Hertfordshire, at a special screening of The Wicker Man, Hardy confirmed that he intended to begin shooting in the middle of 2013.
[15] The film's score was written by Scottish composer Keith Easdale, and was inspired by Richard Wagner's compositions.
Hardy compared this to Leonard Bernstein's work on West Side Story, where variations on a single melody were used to create many musical themes.