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The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man

2006
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
1h 42m
While recovering from a tragic accident on the road, the patrolman Edward Malus receives a letter from his former fiancée Willow, who left him years ago without any explanation, telling that her daughter Rowan is missing. Edward travels to the private island of Summerisle, where Willow lives in an odd community that plant fruits, and she reveals that Rowan is actually their daughter... (imdb)
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The Wicker Man

2006
Drama
Suspense/Thriller
1h 42m
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Rated 14 Dec 2006
3
1st
This movie gets a score of 3. 1 point for each time Nicolas Cage punches a girl in the face. The rest of the movie is shit.
Rated 12 Sep 2010
15
8th
Holy hell, I've been stabbed by toothless hobos with more social grace and charisma than Cage's character in this flaccid bore. I don't think there's a way for this movie to bee any worse. Hahaha! Get it? With.. because of.. with the bees... and then... bear suit... Eh, forget it.
Rated 06 Nov 2010
60
52nd
There's two sides to this. On one hand this is a terrible story of one emasculated man being destroyed by a society of psycho-bitches. On the other, killing him won't bring back their goddamned honey
Rated 18 Sep 2009
21
4th
Oh my god is this movie funny. There's never been so many poorly timed scenes, horribly delivered lines and surrealy bad acting to all come together in such a hilarious mess of a movie. Cage stars as the possibly schizophrenic lead cop and everyone else plays a one-dimensional cardboard cutout that have two lines (if that). Cage is fantastic in this film and never lets up on the insurmountable humour in his quest to find the little girl. A must-watch.
Rated 09 Oct 2012
1
4th
Nicolas Cage gets into a brawl with a bunch of costumed women and children, loses. LaBute watches from above, smirks, calls all women "cunts".
Rated 28 May 2009
25
3rd
Mostly boring and cliche-riddled, but by the time it got to Nicholas Cage punching women, donning a bear suit, and finally giving into THE BEEEEEES I realized that, yes, I was having a good time. I guess what I'm trying to say is that you should skip the movie and just watch the Youtube video.
Rated 18 Oct 2010
30
0th
An unspeakably horrible remake of a cult classic. All the sinister feminist updating is pretentious and rather nasty. Nicholas Cage just goes through the motions, cashes his paycheck, pays a few gambling debts, and moves on.
Rated 14 Jun 2009
10
0th
Diarrhorrible.
Rated 29 Jun 2009
18
3rd
Astonishingly bad. I have no idea what anyone was trying to achieve in creating this trainwreck.
Rated 02 Jul 2009
35
4th
A stupid movie that is goofy as all hell. The Cage is hilarious though. I can watch the bees part and the part with the bear suit endlessly.
Rated 24 Oct 2014
1
2nd
Needed more Cage acting crazy and punching women in the face. And bees. And Cage punching bees in the face.
Rated 04 Nov 2011
80
18th
Take The Shining, Shutter Island, and The Village, but starring Nicolas Cage. This movie isn't objectively good, but on the other hand it has Nicolas Cage in a bear suit punching a woman in the face.
Rated 13 Aug 2007
14
4th
You can't even compare this garbage to the original.
Rated 27 Aug 2007
45
27th
Nicolas Cage ina bear suit beating up women. How awesome is that? Awesome enough to make you forget that it is boring and ludicrous? No, but it is amusing nevertheless.
Rated 27 Nov 2011
40
19th
Underrated is the wrong word; it's certainly not a good film. I think both groups, placing themselves on the ends of a hate-love scale, are off-mark. It's both unfairly despised - in part, I suspect, because of its flat version of the original's rather effective ending - and incomprehensively adored as a camp masterpiece; sure, punching in a bear costume helps. I, for one, felt indifferent towards the film, finding it neither skillful nor inept. The right word, it would seem, is unremarkable.
Rated 06 Sep 2008
43
4th
Nicholas Cage Beats Up a Bunch of Women: The Movie.
Rated 15 Nov 2008
10
11th
Utterly unnecessary remake of classic. LaBute directs with all the gusto of a potsmoking teenager and Cage is his usual down syndrome self. WM'06 dispenses with all interesting elements of the original, taking the route of standard made-for-tv investagation snoozefest. And the overrated Burstyn is a very poor substitute for the delectably decadent Lee.
Rated 20 Oct 2011
17
3rd
Hilariously wretched bastardization of the fascinating original, a botch in nearly every way. The pagan community here is utterly lacking in character or logic, aiming for generic horror-film creepiness--which it totally fails to achieve. Nicolas Cage manages to come off as both a douche and a sap, before descending into utter ham. Ellen Burstyn, as "Sister Summersisle", has barely anything to do, failing to intimidate or compel. It's also shockingly misogynistic. "NOT THE BEES!"--NOT THIS FILM!
Rated 18 Mar 2008
68
54th
I don't get all the bad ratings. It dares to stand out and is unique. I admit it isn't the most exciting movie but overall a pretty decent movie. I wasn't bored.
Rated 16 Nov 2011
9
1st
CHRISTOPHER LEE: This attitude that "people wouldn't understand" is far too prevalent in cinema today. People should be able to use what's left of their minds when they watch something. NICHOLAS CAGE: AAAAAAAH! MY LEGS! MY LEGS! KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN HONEEEEEEEEEEEY!
Rated 30 Jan 2010
10
11th
STEP AWAY FROM THE BIKE. Absolutely awful stuff. Would I watch it again? Yes, because it's hilarious.
Rated 11 Jan 2008
11
2nd
There are times when it eems so very close to tipping over into nonstop lunacy. Instead, everything just seems off. The actors try to make sense of the lines they're delivering as they're delivering them. Trying to find meaning and grounded emotion in this misbegotten material is the collected thespians' second mistake (the first is, of course, signing on to the project in the first place). You can't make sense of stuff like this. The best you can hope to do is get a few laughs out of it.
Rated 30 Nov 2008
0
4th
This is just awful compared to the original... I beg you, watch the original from 1973 it is like one million times better.
Rated 26 Apr 2009
80
84th
Best watched while drunk to see Nick Cage sucker kick a bear.
Rated 09 Oct 2012
1
4th
The original sucks so I'm not surprised a remake would suck even more. When Cage starts fanatically punching women and children it gets good but that's only for the last 20 minutes or so.
Rated 05 Mar 2011
15
0th
Dreadful "horror" film, which spends the first hour concerning itself with a mystery whose solution is obvious from the get go, and provides the usually wonderful 2nd billed Burstyn with a glorified cameo which is by turns dreary and humiliating (the BRAVEHEART war paint does nothing). The climax at least becomes preposterous and bad in an enjoyable way, as Cage slays women using only his fists before facing execution by fire, but by that stage any potential for fun has long since drained away.
Rated 26 Oct 2012
22
5th
A film that speaks to the importance of execution over ideas, for most of what was in the original Wicker Man is in here, but rather than a mysterious and hypnotizing tone brought about by the original's execution, this one replaces it with a tone reminiscent of the most banal of modern horror films. It's not until Cage starts screaming and flailing about in the last half hour does it become hilarious, but by then it's too late.
Rated 20 Feb 2008
6
4th
Poor rerun.
Rated 10 Dec 2011
23
10th
Not quite as bad as its reputation suggests. By which I mean, there are still a few good parts left in there from the original, and a couple average scenes, too. However, the 10 minute sequence from HAUWDITGITBURNED? to Nic Cage in a bear costume punching a woman is one of the most ill-conceived, poorly-acted pieces of cinema I've seen in a while.
Rated 16 Apr 2015
1
8th
What's in the bag...A...shark, or somethin'?
Rated 12 Mar 2011
30
22nd
That's, uh, quite the ending. It's certainly not as bad as people make it out to be, either.
Rated 13 May 2012
60
30th
Kind of terrible, but at the same time curiously engaging and genuinely unsettling on occasion. Beautifully shot.
Rated 28 Jul 2010
1
1st
It's like that highlight video on YouTube, but about a hundred times more boring.
Rated 03 May 2009
2
3rd
*runs around punching women and children*
Rated 28 Feb 2011
3
0th
I'll admit I haven't seen the original but I highly doubt it's as bad as this piece of garbage. It's just idiotic scene followed by idiotic scene as Cage, surprisingly, has more character depth than anyone else in the movie. This, however, isn't surprisingly considering the rest of the cast only has one mood: angry that an outside man showed up. Well, except for Willow who's mood is essentially: I'm an absolutely bumbling idiot. Plus side: Nic Cage in a bear suit one-shotting a woman.
Rated 27 Sep 2019
8
86th
The theatrical version? 1/8. The director's cut? 8/8. I split the difference.
Rated 19 Apr 2009
5
14th
Not as bad as everyone said it was. Still it didn't get a passing grade, but I expected this to be one of the worst films I've ever seen, and was somewhat disappointed it wasn't. It's greatest flaw is being a remake, in that it's virtually a scene for scene copy of the original, and not utilizing any new ideas to change the plot significantly.
Rated 13 Dec 2007
70
40th
I'm proud to say I have given 'The Wicker Man' one of it's highest ratings on this website. It's absolutely awful. But so what? It's Nicolas Cage in a bear suit punching women! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!
Rated 08 Jun 2016
2
15th
Mostly just pretty boring. There are a few hilarious Cage scenes, but it's nowhere near as entertaining as you'd expect from its reputation. Frankly, I'm not a fan of the original either so whatever.
Rated 28 Jan 2014
3
1st
A horrible movie that has a hilarious ending. Not really worth watching though, even though Cage delivers a Cage/10 performance.
Rated 26 Feb 2008
5
0th
I couldn't stay awake through the whole thing. Watch Youtube's, "the best two minutes of the Wicker Man" It's just a mash up of rediculous parts of this movie, and a better use of time.
Rated 21 Apr 2009
38
4th
In a perfect world, 20 years from now people dressed in bear suits will go to midnight showings of this film to shout "HOW'D IT GET BURNED?" Highly recommended for all the wrong reasons.
Rated 18 Sep 2009
10
8th
Terrible remake of a classic.
Rated 23 Dec 2008
1
0th
This is the best movie
Rated 20 Dec 2013
30
12th
List of movies I would love to see remade with Nicolas Cage in starring role: a.) Citizen Kane. b.) Titanic. c.) Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back. d.) Schindler's List e.) Great Dictator f.) Rocky g.) Gone With The Wind h.) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest i.) Vertigo j.) Superman k.) Aguirre, Wrath of God l.) A Clockwork Orange m.) Breathless n.) The Silence Of The Lambs o.) Groundhog Day p.) Deep Throat r.) Apocalypse Now [in no particular order; list incomplete]
Rated 26 Jan 2013
13
6th
Just watch the compilations on YouTube again, then the actual film with Christopher Lee.
Rated 01 Mar 2007
25
6th
Very poor remake of a legendary film,You know its all gone wrong when you realise they have set this version of the film in America lol.
Rated 27 Nov 2007
40
19th
Not good at all--especially in comparison with the original--but the ending is absolutely uproarious.
Rated 23 Dec 2008
79
51st
Nicolas Cage, in a bear suit, runs and punches a woman in the face!! Best. Movie. Ever.
Rated 03 May 2019
20
9th
One of a slew of terrible aughties remakes to 1970s horror gems. And Nicolas Cage, I'm a fan but he's wrongly typecast, and seems to never miss a chance to make an awful choice and this is one of the worst. A few years after this, Robin Hardy the director of the original "Wicker Man" made "The Wicker Tree", which is much nicer than this remake and can scratch your itch if you're nostalgic.
Rated 20 Jul 2009
50
13th
Neil LaBute must have caught his wife sleeping with another man.
Rated 22 Feb 2008
4
0th
Right, so it turns out when I thought I had seen the film, I had only seen part of it during a jet-lagged haze in America. I've re-watched it and I'm not changing my score. This is Last Airbender inept as a film. It's bad Cage ridiculous, an insult to the original. It could have worked, as the British one is somewhat dated. However, when your big scary scenes are hilarious, then you fail. I realize I'm not saying why it's shit, I'll narrow it down to everything. Just everything. Quite funny tho
Rated 26 Oct 2009
50
15th
I don't know why everyone hates this movie so much, as it seemed mostly forgettable. It was too silly to be scary and too dull to be funny. I really thou - OH NO NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES!
Rated 16 Mar 2010
5
1st
manages to screw it up completely! To sum it up, this is the worst Nic Cage movie in later years, which translates to: RUN AWAY! (NOT THE BEES!!!)
Rated 09 Feb 2014
100
99th
This is beautifully bad. I love it. People also don't realise how beautifully this film is shot with love crane shots and a creepy ambiance created through the browned colours making you feel like you are in the woods. Also contains the greatest line of all time in cinematic history "step away from the bike". Wonderful.
Rated 25 Jul 2008
57
31st
I never saw the original, but people are completely unfair to this movie. As I was watching this I was thinking "this is it? this is the infamously bad 'the wicker man'". There were no really bad scenes, in fact, it actually had potential! This is the last time I trust popular opinion. Competent acting, okay direction, what the hell people? I can think of several hundred movies off the top of my head that deserve 'The worst movie' award.
Rated 26 Jul 2010
20
0th
It's films like these that made you sad. You watch it and you see that all the actors are trying their hardest, but this movie is SO BAD. In some bits I was crying of laughter (Nick Cage in a bear suit punching a woman). Bad movie Labute, Bad movie.
Rated 09 Mar 2024
40
8th
so bad it's good....... almost
Rated 08 Apr 2014
30
0th
Cage is so deliciously over-the-top. Very funny indeed.
Rated 13 Feb 2011
10
8th
Nice twist at the end, but that is its only redeeming quality.
Rated 03 Apr 2013
0
0th
HOW'D IT GET BURNED
Rated 10 Sep 2011
60
40th
How'd it get burned? HOW'D IT GET BURNED?
Rated 12 Jan 2013
30
17th
I don't think The Wicker Man is worth watching. I've heard people describe it as fun movie because it's so bad, but from where I'm sitting, it's just dull. It has lifeless performances, a stock plot, and two twists which barely matter, one of which actually hampers the film. There isn't any fun to be had here, even though it's competently made. Go watch the original instead, and let this one be sacrificed to the movie gods.
Rated 30 Aug 2013
1
19th
This movie is perfect for watching a movie where you NEED a drinking game to keep up. Nicolas Cage is awesome at being himself - and that's about it. It's more of a comedy... leaves you feeling outraged and sad inside that such a beautiful story got adapted into this Frankenstein's Monster of garbage and filth and Cage. Don't get me wrong, Nicolas Cage is the only thing I'll watch this for. That point alone speaks volumes.
Rated 28 Jan 2015
10
1st
Enjoyably bad.
Rated 10 Jul 2010
6
3rd
bees
Rated 16 Oct 2008
65
43rd
Not bad. I have not seen the original. N.Cage is one of my favourite actors. A strange movie with a bizare ending.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
45
13th
Like the wicker man featured at the end of the film, LaBute sticks what was good about the freethinking original and stuffs it into a bizarre, wooden construct, then proceeds to burn it all to Hell in the pursuit of his own misguided ideals. Your money and two hours of your time are not worth the sacrifice.
Rated 17 Sep 2007
10
2nd
Painful to watch.
Rated 15 Jun 2014
20
7th
A horribly-written, poorly-acted, plot hole-ridden, catastrophe. A movie led by Nicolas Cage really needs a good premise but this does not deliver. It's not even so bad that it is good. I mean some of the really terrible scenes can be funny and you may enjoy this if you are a part of r/onetruegod, but otherwise, stay away from this.
Rated 26 Apr 2015
23
3rd
The biggest problem with this movie is Neil LaBute; even Cage's most ridiculous antics can barely make this watchable. This movie has a great cast, but the tension never builds because LaBute has no sense of atmosphere and seems to be incapable of anything more creative as a director than pointing the camera at his actors. And oh god the bad editing. And the costumes are lazy and uninspired. The last scene with James Franco would be the only good part if the movie had earned that ending.
Rated 19 Jul 2010
10
0th
Worse than you've heard.
Rated 12 Jul 2008
9
1st
Possibly the worst remake ever. Worse than The Haunting remake.
Rated 21 Apr 2014
0
0th
Words cannot describe the thousand layers of terrible that occur in this monstrosity. There are of course the famous bee scenes and lady punching you have seen on the internet. Between them however, is an hour and a half worth of wooden, awkward dialogue that seems almost half-finished at times. Most scenes are strange overreactions by all parties, over and over and over. Well worth watching as a lesson on how not to make a movie.
Rated 23 Jan 2011
48
23rd
It's a really funny movie, although it doesn't try to be. It's actually one of Cage's better performances.
Rated 17 Jul 2012
68
6th
Even though it's got a reputation as a camp classic, the problem with this remake is it takes itself far too seriously. The original was basically a twisted satire, but this ends up slow and ponderous.
Rated 26 Jul 2008
50
14th
New perspective: It's a great comedy. I'm not sure if Cage was the only one who thought it was a comedy or not, but I'll take his word for it that it's not an unintentional comedy. It's worth a watch cuz it's bad and funny.
Rated 14 Oct 2010
0
4th
Don't see it before the original The Wicker Man 1973. if you see this Batshit insane movie, you will get haunted by bee's forever!
Rated 14 Nov 2015
75
10th
This movie would have been much worse if NIcholas cage wasn't playing the lead.
Rated 02 Oct 2016
45
6th
I wouldn't say this film is bee-autifully done, but I must say it descends into madness pretty quickly at the end. This movie is probably my favorite from the great Nicolas Cage. He is a giant Christmas ham in this film. The lines are all wonderfully and terribly written and despite the very slow beginning, if you can hold out, you are in for a sweet treat of stupidity at the end...
Rated 29 May 2007
20
11th
Jesus fucking Christ.
Rated 07 Nov 2010
9
0th
NOT NIC CAGE! ARHRHAHRH NOT NIC CAGE! AWW MY EYES
Rated 31 Dec 2021
34
12th
What I don't get is why a movie with the budget this had looks so damn bad. The costumes are worse than the acting and the acting is complete shit. Cage is terrible in this movie and yet he's still better than most anyone else and he's certainly the most entertaining, not that it means much given how bad this was.
Rated 24 Feb 2008
14
2nd
One of the worst remakes ever?
Rated 07 Jan 2007
0
0th
The most awful movie with probably the largest budget that I've ever seen. And there is zero action.
Rated 21 Jul 2009
10
1st
Dreadful, but very funny (accidentally).
Rated 27 Sep 2012
70
1st
Awful!
Rated 16 Oct 2012
22
2nd
Can you SWING it?
Rated 29 Jul 2009
18
0th
Hilarious.
Rated 11 Oct 2015
68
37th
Not a "good" movie by any stretch, but definitely an entertaining one.
Rated 10 May 2020
40
32nd
the director could not possibly throw nic cage into this oven and not think the end result would make a delicious party snack
Rated 20 Jan 2016
0
1st
what even, nicolas?
Rated 04 Sep 2007
10
1st
One of the worst movies ever made, it is painfully funny and entertaining for every wrong reason imaginable. Nicolas Cage couldn't have been serious here.
Rated 08 Feb 2010
10
5th
So bad that it's good. Not the bees!
Rated 18 Oct 2013
69
54th
Whilst it was amusing enough to see me through to the end, it's pretty much just a long buildup to the bear suit punch and "NOT THE BEES!"
Rated 14 Apr 2014
23
6th
Cage holds it together for the most part of this film with only sporadic outbursts livening up the droll American retelling of Wicker Man...That is until the last 20 minutes where he recalls his Vampires Kiss form and knocks bitches out in a bear suit before being incinerated alive. Leaving the character of the town largely to the wayside when WM strays from a scene for scene retelling is a killer. The catholic vs paganism theme was so strong, here it's boiled down to Cage vs Bees.
Rated 14 Jun 2016
2
2nd
F: Words can't describe how hilarious this film is. It isn't scary, it isn't threatening, it isn't shocking. It is hilarious. Cage gives the funniest terrible role of his life and delivers us mind-numbingly scary bad acting.
Rated 07 Mar 2012
45
16th
HOW'D IT GET BURNED?! HOW'D IT GET BURNED?!
Rated 09 Mar 2010
40
13th
Extremely wonky if this indeed is NOT an intentional comedy. Some redeeming moments as well; Cage's "walking nightmares" kind of work, some fun dialogue, there's relative suspense, and it's always fun to see LeeLee. But the bees scene proves that Cage wasn't taking this seriously. But he sure can smack a bitch. The actual wicker man was a neat concept as far as sacrifices go. The original theatrical ending is better than the unrated one; more LeeLee! Y'know what, fuck it, see this movie.
Rated 31 Dec 2012
0
0th
This remake is so bad, it's rather astonishing.

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