12 Perfect Horror Movies With One Glaring Flaw

The Wicker Man is among the best British horror films of all time. It's a superbly acted, wonderfully idiosyncratic horror drama that, despite being short on scares in the traditional sense, is still an unforgettably disturbing piece of cinema.

It has its logic issues though. The picture centres around Sgt. Howie (Edward Woodward), who travels to a remote Scottish island to search for a missing girl, who he was informed about by an anonymous letter. He deduces that the girl is to be sacrificed by its Pagan inhabitants in the hope that this will bring back their harvest.

Eventually, it turned out the disappearance was just a ruse to lure Howie to the island, for he is actually the intended sacrifice. As a virgin (he's an unmarried Christian) who came willingly and has the 'power of a king' (in that he's a policeman), he fits their criteria and the islanders then proceed to burn the poor fella alive in a wicker man.

There was an awful lot that could've gone wrong in that plan; it seems unlikely these isolated islanders could've have known for sure that Howie was a virgin and that he'd even respond to the letter. They were also leaving a lot to chance by assuming that he'd be stupid enough to come without backup and by claiming the girl never existed, which could've caused him to assume it was a hoax and leave.

Still, at least it isn't as stupid as that hideous Nic Cage remake.