A week ago our man Pacheco shot at you a couple of new stills from Robin Hardy’s long-languishing THE WICKER TREE. Well, as the film nears its Fantasia Fest screening this month, an additional handful of photos have recently sprouted up. A lot of the same, frankly, but you can find them below if you so choose.
Adapted by Hardy from his own novel, Gospel singer Beth and her cowboy friend Steve, set off from Texas to enlighten the Scottish heathens in the ways of Christ. When they are welcomed with joy and elation to the village of Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. Beguiled by beautiful, sexy Celtic music, in counterpoint to the bluegrass hymns Beth sings to them, she is elected Queen of the May. Meanwhile an increasingly doubtful Steve becomes her consort, destined to be hunted on horseback by the whole community in a ritual he believes to be an innocent race. Neither of them realize that these honours are being heaped upon them for a purpose that will lead them to a terrifying end…
Graham McTavish, Clive Russell, Honeysuckle Weeks, Henry Garrett, Callum Mitchell, Jacqueline Leonard, Prue Clarke, James Mapes, Keith Warwick, Brittania Nicol, Iain Stuart Robertson, Christopher Leveaux and Christopher Lee all appear in the movie.
Here’s hoping THE WICKER TREE has a successful enough Fantasia screening to land a legit release date. It’s been way too long waiting for this sucker…
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