Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland.
When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus.
How wrong they are.....
The original Wicker man was full of menace and a strange feeling of dread throughout, much like Don't Look Now, and is still heralded today as one of the finest British horror movies ever made.
Now we have this, which stamps all over the classic and almost ruins Hardys vision.
It was so camp, so over the top, and filled with this really strange unfunny humour, that it was like a car crash, you didn't want to watch it, but you couldn't take your eyes off the screen.
The two Americans were truly awful and typecast, and she gave the funniest line in the film, when she is praying and thanking the Lord for her good looks. She really had to look in the mirror.
McTavish is good though, but not in it enough, and really make she film a little bit more affable when in it, hence the score of two.
Lee pops up for a minute, in front of blue screen, looking angry, and that's really the only connection to the original.
It really is a dog of a film, laughable in so many ways, but fans of the original, will just be angry.
See the Cage remake, it's The Exorcist compared to this.
When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus.
How wrong they are.....
The original Wicker man was full of menace and a strange feeling of dread throughout, much like Don't Look Now, and is still heralded today as one of the finest British horror movies ever made.
Now we have this, which stamps all over the classic and almost ruins Hardys vision.
It was so camp, so over the top, and filled with this really strange unfunny humour, that it was like a car crash, you didn't want to watch it, but you couldn't take your eyes off the screen.
The two Americans were truly awful and typecast, and she gave the funniest line in the film, when she is praying and thanking the Lord for her good looks. She really had to look in the mirror.
McTavish is good though, but not in it enough, and really make she film a little bit more affable when in it, hence the score of two.
Lee pops up for a minute, in front of blue screen, looking angry, and that's really the only connection to the original.
It really is a dog of a film, laughable in so many ways, but fans of the original, will just be angry.
See the Cage remake, it's The Exorcist compared to this.