‘The Wicker Man’ Is a controversial British horror film from 1973 directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer. The big names in the cast are Edward Woodward who plays the main protagonist in the film (Sergeant Neil Howie), and Christopher Lee playing the main antagonist (lord Summerisle). At the time of its release the film was quite unpopular and didn’t do very well at all, yet 40 years later the film is known as a cult classic. This is partly due to the versatility of the film, as it really doesn’t have any distinguishable genre: it was made as a horror, marketed as a musical and won a sci-fi award, which made it a very saleable film due to its multi-generic reputation. However this was a long time after it was released, in fact at first most cinemas even rejected the film as they believed no one would come and see it. It wasn’t until 1977 when an American magazine published an issue on the Wicker Man dubbing it ‘the Citizen Kane of Horror’ that the film got the recognition it deserved.