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Line 1: {{work}} === The Original Film Provides Examples Of: === * [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: There are two camps for Howie's character - Howie is a mostly reasonable police officer investigating the disappearance and possible death of a little girl. He's understandably frustrated when the community blatantly refuses to cooperate and act more and more suspicious as times goes on. Or... He's a [[Jerkass Victim]] that hates the villagers for being pagans. * [[~~Big~~Non ~~Lipped~~Sequitur ~~Alligator Moment~~Scene]]: Was that naked crying woman on the grave ever explained? ** In the extended version, we see a group of young islanders out on the village green, having sex. Horny as the island is, it seems odd that they would all choose to do so at the same time, so there's most likely some ritual reason for it, something to do with the approaching May Day. She's just visiting her lover, as all the other women in the scene were doing. * [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: The movie has Howie [[Face Death ~~With~~with Dignity\|die with dignity.]] The novelazation by [[Word of God\|the director and writer of the original film]] actually has him die being a [[Badass]]: actually freeing a flock of birds from the Wicker Man's arm ''as it's burning'', because he feels that, as long as he saves ''some'' sort of life, his police mission will have not been completely in vain. * [[Ear Worm]]: The Maypole song. * [[Fridge Horror]]: Invoked in the film with {{spoiler\|Howie warning Summersile that he will be the sacrifice for next year}}. Another would be that {{spoiler\|Howie's disappearance will not go unnoticed by his police force. They could send in an investigation team to find out what happened, and all the townspeople will be in deep shit}}. Line 18: * [[Squick]]: During the film's US release, Christopher Lee did a radio spot, playing a post-film Lord Summerisle responding to allegations toward him and his cult of murder with "We love the flesh, even as it BURNS! ...Aaaah, the sweet smell of burning flesh!" === The 2006 Remake Provides Examples Of: === * [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: One fan-made trailer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mW8mBzmHo states] that ''The Wicker Man'' was actually a [[Stealth Parody]]. * [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: The Nicholas Cage version. Violence against women has never been so hilarious. * [[Fountain of Memes]] * [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Despite the [[Narm~~\|Narmy~~]]y performance of Nicolas Cage, getting a mask filled with angry bees stinging your face is a horrifying thought. * [[So Bad It's Good]]: The remake is a bad horror movie. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mW8mBzmHo It's a great comedy]. * [[Special Effects Failure]]: A very subtle one, you have to be paying attention to catch it. When Nic yells the ultimate in Narm lines "[[Fountain of Memes\|Not the bees! They're in my eyes!]]" THERE ARE NO BEES IN HIS EYES! Especially hilarious when you consider the fact that those bees are CGI, so some CGI animator decided that when he yelled that, there would be no bees in his eyes.