Do something, fight back! <nervous>
It’s the original burning man! Scary!!
and the poor little animals inside 
It’s upsetting enough to see the guy burning, but to hear the screams of the animals is horrid!
Wait, what, it’s over?!? :eek:
That dude is so crazy looking!
p.s. I am glad that I didn’t look up the movie on Wiki or IMBD before watching because the images would have given it away. I knew the name of the movie, but didn’t make the connection until the very moment I saw the Wicker Man that I knew what they were planning for him. Good surprise!
The detective was such a determined tough guy, though, I wish he had fought back though. 
I mean, even if he fought back, where could he go? Once Oak grabbed him, I think he realized it was all over, and resigned himself to his fate.
Everyone on the island, by the way, was named after a plant or tree.
Oak
Willow
Ms. Rose
Alder McGregor
Rowan Morrison
My favorite part of the movie was the montage of scenes when he was searching for Rowan Morrison, going to all the shops around town, with that weird psychedelic-folk rendition of “Baa Baa Black Sheep” accompanying it - and then as soon as he sees the ship out the window, and goes out onto it, the song switches to a pirate-sounding sea shanty, and then when he’s back on land, it goes back to the main song.
“The life of the fields. John Barleycorn.”
“That’s my costume. The salmon of knowledge!”
Back in the late 1970s, VCRs were very rare, and I had one of the very first ones (cost $1500!) I would take it various places to show the few tapes that were comercially avabilable, or stuff that I had recorded from TV. For instance, I used to do “Music Video Night” at Kansas City’s “New Wave” club the Music Box (just up the street from the Punk club the Downliner).
One of those evenings, I showed The Wicker Man to a house full of Wiccans. Interesting evening.
That’s Lindsey Kemp, who taught mime and “movement” to both David Bowie and Kate Bush.
One of my favorites. The first DVD I ever owned was a special edition of TWM with both the theatrical cut and the extended cut, as well as a bunch of interesting extras. Came in a wooden box with the logo dyed into the wood to look burned in.
I don’t think I have ever seen this limited edition since, but if you really like the move, you might want to search for a copy. Looks great on the bookshelf too - always gets attention from visitors.
This. I think I paid about $40 for mine (#26162 out of a production run of 50,000) when they came out. Good luck finding one now, though… Ebay, anyone?
The U.K. special-ed. has a commentary track with several of the principals discussing the film… I should check YouTube to see if anyone’s posted it. And for those who haven’t seen the, IIRC, 12 minutes or so of material in the restored version unincluded in the very short U.S. edit which aired last night, you can probably find those on YT, I’m guessing.