Review of The Wicker Man (2006) by J.r. Jones for Chicago Reader — 06 Oct 2016
For this remake writer-director Neil LaBute has moved the action from Scotland to Washington State, added enough scares for Warner Brothers to market the movie as horror, and turned the story into an almost comically Wagnerian expression of the castration anxiety that snakes through his original screenplays.
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This review of The Wicker Man (2006) was written by J.r. Jones and published by Chicago Reader on 06 Oct 2016.
The Wicker Man has generally received negative reviews.
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