Wicker man nude scene

Yes I am going to be talking about the original film. Sure you could watch Citizen Kane or Birth of a Nation or Lawrence of Arabia this weekend, but if you want to bend your mind in a way you never knew it could break, settle yourself down in front of this magnificent train wreck:. Is it a B movie? A Scottish musical? An X rated horror starring the ever insane Christopher Lee?

The sight of her in a tiny bikini bending over and accidentally pushing a dangerous button with her behind is a classic cinema moment but she also hit headlines with her full-frontal seductive dance in The Wicker Man the year before. Ekland later revealed that although she completely stripped off for the scene, she did not allow the camera to film one part of her body and the film makers secretly reshot the scene adding in a body double, a "stripper from Glasgow. Ekland said: "For me anything below the waist is private so I was prepared to be topless on film but I would not show my bottom and my agent made that very clear. No one told me, neither before nor after it happened. Ekland added: "Her bottom was much bigger than mine and she wore a blonde wig that was longer than my own hair.

The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer , inspired by David Pinner 's novel Ritual , centres on the visit of Police Sergeant Neil Howie to the isolated island of Summerisle, in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism. Paul Giovanni composed the film score. The Wicker Man is generally well-regarded by critics. In , a copy of the original U.

The Wicker Man trades in spooks and jump scares for an intriguing mystery and psychological chills, and its fundamental conflict is on one of opposing ideologies and culture shock. While the film remains as a classic, it seems to be one of those over looked gems. Britt Ekland and Rod Stewart had problems with the nude scenes.