If we think of Evil Dead, Sam Raimi and everyone else, they went on to do great big things, and that's kind of like an origin story. And it has no big stars, no one went on to do anything. I know it’s a bit of a stretch for some people when I say that, but why not, you know? The Wicker Man is a funny thing, it kind of grows a bit like moss, and if you don't keep an eye on it, it just keeps growing and growing and growing. But for me, I was always a big fan of Doctor Who, and this felt like it could be a Doctor Who-style adventure with The Doctor going somewhere - and The Doctor being, of course, the policeman, and there's a female assistant, which would be Willow in the pub. 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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