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[[File:wickerman.jpg|frame|[[Iron Maiden (Music)|Your time will come, your time will come...]]]]
 
Two films. There are tropes for both on this page. Robin Hardy's original film was made in 1973 with [[Christopher Lee]] as Lord Summerisle. It's a sort of suspense/horror/folk musical. Neil LaBute remade it in 2006 with [[Nicolas Cage]].
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* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Lord Summerisle again.
* [[Audio Erotica]]: Howie can only hear Willow's song, not see her, but he's still tempted. Magic may be involved.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Though thanks to Howie's final speech, only till the apple harvest fails again. If you look at it that way, (see [[Taking You Withwith Me]] further down) you could arguably say that Howie was the real winner.
* [[Batman Gambit]]
* [[Better Byby a Different Name]]: Because of [[Christopher Lee]], Ingrid Pitt and [[Fan Service|Willow]] some like to name this "The greatest [[Hammer Horror]] that wasn't made by the Hammer Studio.
* [[Bonnie Scotland]]
* [[But I Would Really Enjoy It]]: Howie doesn't believe in sex before marriage, and is therefore still a virgin in middle age. Willow does her best to seduce him {{spoiler|and fails, though Howie is literally trembling with desire.}}
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* [[Dark Reprise]]: {{spoiler|Howie's reprise of the 23rd Psalm}} as counterpoint to the townsfolk's "Sumer is Icumen In" at the film's climax.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Lord Summerisle quite often.
* [[Death Byby Sex]]: Inverted, {{spoiler|the pious virgin is killed, and losing his virginity just might have made him an unacceptable sacrifice.}}
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Lion's share of the movie's creepiness comprises of this.
* [[Doomed Moral Victor]]
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** Milk a ''bull''? There's really only one way to take that.
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Dressing Asas the Enemy]] {{spoiler|Gets him killed.}}
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: {{spoiler|Rowan}}
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: [[Christopher Lee]] is in this movie.
* [[Face Death Withwith Dignity]]: Rather [[Large Ham|hammily]] averted at first by Howie ("OH MY GOOOOOD!") but once the fire is actually lit, played straight, as Howie accepts his death and prays for his soul to go to Heaven.
* [[Faceless Goons]]: "Take those masks off!"
* [[Fake Nationality]]: None of the four leads are Scottish.
* [[Fan Service]]: Would you like to watch Britt Ekland [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfv73j_britt-ekland-naked-in-the-wicker-man_sexy dance naked?]
* [[A Fete Worse Than Death]]
* [[Filk Song]]: [[Bruce Dickinson (Music)|Bruce Dickinson]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGRi3RQ-_gU Wicker Man]" ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZkAQoa1plM&ob=av2e the one] he co-wrote after rejoining [[Iron Maiden (Music)|Iron Maiden]] - quoted in the caption above - [[Word Salad Lyrics|less so]])
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: It's right there in the title.
* [[For the Evulz]]: The only possible explanation for Daisy's beetle-abuse.
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* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: May Day
* [[Human Sacrifice]]
* [[Intercourse Withwith You]]: ''[[Fan Service|Heyyy, hoooo, who is there?...]]''
* [["I Want" Song]]: Most of the songs, except the hero's song, which is the 23rd Psalm, starting "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."
* [[Jerkass]]: Lord Summerisle, the island inhabitants, and some of Howie's co-workers from the original version's beginning. Despite his [[Affably Evil|affability]], Lord Summerisle probably reigns supreme in this category; as the co-workers are minor, the inhabitants genuinely devout, and Howie at least genuinely wants to do the right thing. Summerisle has no real excuse.
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* [[Nude Nature Dance]]: Towards the middle, Christopher Lee sees a group of young women dancing around a fire, nude.
* [[Oh Crap]]: This is one of the few films where the main character can shout "Oh Jesus Christ!" and have it come across as a true, in-character [[Oh Crap]] moment.
* [[Peek -a -Boo Corpse]]: But it's in a coffin.
* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: "THEY. WILL. NOT. FAIL."
* [[The Radio Dies First]]
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* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''The Wicker Tree''
* [[Stout Strength]]: Oak. {{spoiler|Howie may look more fit, but he doesn't have a chance. The rest of the crowd can just stand around and watch.}} Hinted at early on in the inn, when we see Oak carrying a grown man around on his shoulders for fun.
* [[Taking You Withwith Me]]: {{spoiler|Howie points out that if ''his'' sacrifice doesn't bring back the crops, only Lord Summerisle will be a suitable sacrifice next year. Summerisle's reaction shows that it briefly hits home before he declares that the crops won't fail; even if he doesn't believe in the island's gods, the rest of the island certainly does!}}
* [[Tap Onon the Head]]: {{spoiler|1=When Howie knocks out MacGregor to [[Mugged for Disguise|steal his Punch costume.]]}}
* [[Town Withwith a Dark Secret]]
* [[Theme Naming]]: All the townsfolk are named for trees or plants. May Morrison, gets a doubly symbolic name, with May not only being a plant (another name for hawthorn), but also a month of fertility.
* [[The Vamp]]: {{spoiler|Willow}}
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*** Except they couldn't. {{spoiler|One of the specifications for the sacrifice is that Howie come of his own free will.}}
**** Perhaps it means {{spoiler|Howie came to the island of his own free will.}}
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Arthur Machen (Creator)|The White People]]'' meets ''The Lottery''
* [[You're Insane!]] / [[Only Sane Man]]: "You're all raving mad!"
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* [[Creepy Twins]]: Though unusually for [[Creepy Twins]], they're really old ladies, not kids.
* [[Dream Within a Dream]]
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears]]: The infamous bear suit Cage dons in a scene.
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bees]]: '''[[Memetic Mutation|NOT THE BEES!!!]]'''
* [[Gender Flip]]: Lord Summerisle was rewritten as Sister Summerisle
* [[In Name Only]]: Robin Hardy's attitude toward the remake.
* [[Lady Land]]: The island.
* [[Large Ham]]: [[Nicolas Cage]]. One can easily suspect he [[Ham and Cheese|knew how awful the film was and overacted on purpose.]]
* [[Makes Just Asas Much Sense in Context]]: Even knowing how all the [[Memetic Mutation]] stuff fits into the narrative doesn't make it any more logical or understandable.
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]] Played straight: the virgin aspect was removed due to LaBute considering the notion of Cage playing a virgin ridiculous. They gave his character an allergy to bees instead. Not quite the same.
* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]
* [[My God, You Are Serious]]: Christopher Lee, who played Lord Sumerisle in the original, got this reaction when he mentioned the remake at a press conference.
{{quote| '''Christopher Lee:''' I was very happy to be in it; it was a remarkable film. Occult film, with followings all over the world. They're talking about re-making it in America with Nicholas Cage. ''(the audience chuckles)'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}M39giPEjE6Y No, that's what Universal says. They're going to re-make the movie.]}}
* [[RifftraxRiff Trax]]: It makes the movie [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyeHf1ZK2dY watchable].
* [[Straw Feminist]]: The cult
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Averted to hilarious effect; Cage's character seems to do ''nothing but'' assault women. That said, the very first woman he socks is the incredibly mannish Sister Beech. {{spoiler|Hell, he does it while wearing a ''bear costume''}}.
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