Parents' Guide to

The Wicker Man

By Cynthia Fuchs, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 18+

Horror remake about murderous cult. Not for kids.

Movie PG-13 2006 97 minutes
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age 12+

Based on 1 parent review

age 12+

Alright

Not too bad, pg 13 so it’s not gonna be anything over the top!

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Too much violence

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THE WICKER MAN might best be described as one man's hysteria. Edward means well, insisting that he wants to "help people." But his efforts only lead him into trouble with a cult of malevolent women who outsmart him at every turn. With a softness that is both emotional and physical (he's allergic to bees, and rendered unconscious more than once), Edward is increasingly afraid and chaotic in his affect and appearance. But he's stuck, an unusual man forced to be usual (his last ditch efforts to fight the women physically are so overstated that they seem comic). Although he's initially a sensitive man who wants to be heroic, Edward is stuck inside a retro gender dynamic: evil women versus inept men.

Deducing that Rowan has been kidnapped and will be sacrificed at an upcoming fertility ritual, he makes a series of predictable choices, bicycling heroically from site to site in search of evidence, but, as he puts it, "Every time I turn my head, there's something that doesn't make any sense." Exactly.

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