But over the decades, the movie, especially its deeply unsettling soundtrack, would become enormously influential.
Directed by Robin Hardy and starring Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, and Britt Ekland, the film follows a police sergeant investigating the disappearance of a young girl on the isolated Scottish island of Summerisle, where pagan rituals and strange traditions quickly create an atmosphere of mounting dread.
In an interview with The Guardian, Hardy recalled instructing Giovanni, "that the film should have no electronic sounds in it at all. It should be as if we were using a town band on the island, and therefore it should have Scottish folk origins. We talked about Robbie Burns a good deal - the songs Corn Rigs and Gently Johnny are both from his poems."
"I think one of the things is that the songs are used as dialogue but they don't set out as they would in a musical," Hardy told BFI. "It's just that the dialogue lapses into song and vice versa. The lyrics in the songs are very important because they say what we are trying to say in that particular part of the story."
What made the soundtrack especially effective was the way its cheerful melodies often contrasted with the increasingly disturbing events onscreen. Songs that initially sounded playful or traditional gradually took on a more ominous quality as the story unfolded.
Although The Wicker Man initially failed commercially, it later developed one of the strongest cult followings in horror cinema history and is now widely considered one of the greatest folk horror films ever made.
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