The Wicker Man

My published Flavorpill post:

Robin Hardy’s cult classic, The Wicker Man, was the prototype for Neil LaBute’s horribly disappointing remake. Fortunately, the CineFamily celebrates the original’s disquieting pagan pageantry on the big screen tonight. The suspenseful plot begins with mainland Sergeant Howie’s investigation of a missing girl on a remote Scottish isle. As the Christian officer investigates the island’s arcane society and its immoral rituals, the community of svengalis suspiciously begins to rope-a-dope him, led by pseudo-diplomat Lord Summerisle (career villain Christopher Lee). Organized religion is broadsided here, of course, but the slow-cooked shocker is deliriously provocative and sinuously disturbing to the last lingering shot.