There's a bit of naughtiness, you could say, at the end, and it shocked people at the time, because it was a policeman, people had the police on a pedestal. You know, there's no bad language, there's no bad behavior, really. But of course, we look at it now, and actually, there's no real horror, there's no graphic anything. Of course, it had an X certificate, and it had quite a reputation for being quite the horror film. So, the films you'd want to see like Evil Dead or Texas Chainsaw Massacre wouldn't be shown on mainstream television, so The Wicker Man was part of that, was part of the films that weren't often shown. ![]() John Walsh: I think for me, it was a case of there was only a certain amount of films that were kicking around as VHS tapes in the ‘80s, and network television in the UK was quite limited what they could show and what they would show.
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