what's the difference? in general?
Jeez, what a general question.
To start with it was not 'holywoodised', it did not totally rip up the story or rewrite male parts as female. And it attracted a shit load of controversy, whereas the cage one was considered a joke.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker ... 73_film%29
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker ... 06_film%29
Christopher Lee, who played Lord Summerisle in the original film, said about the remake: "What do I think of it being played by a woman, when it was played by a man in 1972, as part of a Scottish pagan community, and now it's played by a woman with the same name? What do I think of it? Nothing. There's nothing to say."[2]
The film garnered five Razzie Award nominations, for Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Cage), Worst Screenplay, Worst Remake, and Worst On-Screen Couple (Cage and his bearsuit).
Cage himself acknowledged that the movie was "absurd." He remarked in 2010: "There is a mischievous mind at work on The Wicker Man, you know? You know what I mean? And I finally kind of said, 'I might have known that that movie was meant to be absurd.' But saying that now after the fact is OK, but to say it before the fact is not, because you have to let the movie have its own life."
Watch it yourself and see what you think
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