As a teenager in 1973 or 74 I managed to get in to see this despite being under-age for an "X" film. I remember being baffled to see that it was second feature to Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now, a film I considered vastly inferior. Of course, Roeg was a director with a rather overinflated reputation, and I guess we all know that The Wicker Man was underappreciated in its time. But yes, I agree that it's one of the best British films ever, and certainly a candidate for the best British horror film.
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