History Fridge / TheWickerMan2006

!!FridgeLogic
* The PyrrhicVictory at the end of the remake is a problem. More than one person knew Malus was going to the island to investigate his (possible) daughter's disappearance, ''and one of them is a cop.'' Now the lady cop was in on it, so we have to assume they may kill the other male cop who knew Malus was going to Summer's Isle or else they're gonna have a huge load of authorities on the island investigating every single thing. The proposed "we don't answer to the national authorities" thing could ''easily'' get escalated since there would be two missing people (not counting his daughter) associated with the trip Malus took--he's dead and so is the pilot who dropped him off there--and if they choose to kill the other male cop to cover up the details, that's ''three'' missing people directly associated with Summer's Isle. There is no way they can just let three missing people go, especially since they disappeared at the same time, so not only would they besieged by angry cops looking for cop killers, if anyone informs the press, any business they share with the mainland could now come under fire. They've already been sacrificing people under the claim that it allows them to be prosperous, but if a murder investigation gets to the papers, it could collapse their entire economy and force them to be truly self-reliant, not to mention that cops hold grudges against cop killers, so they could also be subject to harassment and violence from the people who knew Malus or the pilot's family (and the other cop, if they kill him.) Hell, they may get angry enough to storm the island in the dead of night and try to burn it to the ground. Now how was ALL OF THAT worth gaslighting Malus and then trapping him on the island to die and somehow bring the island prosperity? And it makes less sense because the film ends implying it's gonna do that all over again with a new guy, so now there are ''more'' potential missing people related to Summer's Isle. How many more before they either get destroyed by angry loved ones or investigated to the point of losing all ability to sustain itself by the undoubtedly pissed off authorities on the mainland?

* The PyrrhicVictory at the end is a problem. More than one person knew Malus was going to the island to investigate his (possible) daughter's disappearance, ''and one of them is a cop.'' Now the lady cop was in on it, so we have to assume they may kill the other male cop who knew Malus was going to Summer's Isle or else they're gonna have a huge load of authorities on the island investigating every single thing. The proposed "we don't answer to the national authorities" thing could ''easily'' get escalated since there would be two missing people (not counting his daughter) associated with the trip Malus took--he's dead and so is the pilot who dropped him off there--and if they choose to kill the other male cop to cover up the details, that's ''three'' missing people directly associated with Summer's Isle. There is no way they can just let three missing people go, especially since they disappeared at the same time, so not only would they besieged by angry cops looking for cop killers, if anyone informs the press, any business they share with the mainland could now come under fire. They've already been sacrificing people under the claim that it allows them to be prosperous, but if a murder investigation gets to the papers, it could collapse their entire economy and force them to be truly self-reliant, not to mention that cops hold grudges against cop killers, so they could also be subject to harassment and violence from the people who knew Malus or the pilot's family (and the other cop, if they kill him.) Hell, they may get angry enough to storm the island in the dead of night and try to burn it to the ground. Now how was ALL OF THAT worth gaslighting Malus and then trapping him on the island to die and somehow bring the island prosperity?

!!FridgeLogic
* The misandrist cult culls of all of their male children and only keeps some elderly men around for breeding purposes and to do manual labor. You'd think it'd be a good idea to keep a couple of younger guys around for both, since back muscles and erections wouldn't be nearly as robust in a bunch of enslaved octogenarians, their "workforce" would have to be replaced at some point in the near future, and the kind of docility they'd need from their male slaves would be ''extremely'' difficult to indoctrinate into men they might try to take captive from the mainland.
** As Edward points out, Summerisle's leadership aren't exactly 100% when it comes to their management over the daily goings-on of the island. He also notes, there's no guarantee that sacrificing him in the wicker man will give them a good harvest. And aside from the islanders being generally pretty unsettling and eerie, there's not much indication that they have supernatural powers. So depending on current path of the leadership, this may be indeed another sign of their deteriorating path towards ruin.

* The trap that the women of Summersisle, a place where their main product is bees and honey, use in order to lure men in to eventually be sacrificed by means of the Wicker Man by having them impregnate a woman and later lure him in presumably by means of their future daughter? It's a HoneyTrap.

* The misandrist cult of all of their male children and only keeps some elderly men around for breeding purposes and to do manual labor. You'd think it'd be a good idea to keep a couple of younger guys around for both, since back muscles and erections wouldn't be nearly as robust in a bunch of enslaved octogenarians, their "workforce" would have to be replaced at some point in the near future, and the kind of docility they'd need from their male slaves would be ''extremely'' difficult to indoctrinate into men they might try to take captive from the mainland.
** As Edward points out, Summerisle's leadership aren't exactly 100% when it comes to their management over the daily goings-on of the island. As Edward points out, there's no guarantee that sacrificing him in the wicker man will give them a good harvest. And aside from the islanders being generally pretty unsettling and eerie, there's not much indication that they have supernatural powers. So depending on current path of the leadership, this may be indeed another sign of their deteriorating path towards ruin.

[[AC:Fridge Logic]]
* The misandrist cult in the remake disposes of all of their male children and only keeps some elderly men around for breeding purposes and to do manual labor. You'd think it'd be a good idea to keep a couple of younger guys around for both, since back muscles and erections wouldn't be nearly as robust in a bunch of enslaved octogenarians, their "workforce" would have to be replaced at some point in the near future, and the kind of docility they'd need from their male slaves would be ''extremely'' difficult to indoctrinate into men they might try to take captive from the mainland.

[[AC:Fridge Brilliance]]
* Why did Sister Honey get beat so easily in the remake? She's used to the men on the island not fighting back. She let him hit her so they could spot the sacrifice.

[[AC:Fridge Horror]]
* Unlike the 1973 original, where it was revealed that Lord Summerisle's plan was born out of desperation at not knowing how to handle the crops failing for the first time since people settled on the island, Sister Summersisle reveals that they've had many bad harvests in the past, and that what happens to Edward has happened many times before, always resulting in a much better harvest the next year. One can only imagine how many men needlessly got roasted alive, just because Summersisle had a bum honey crop one year, and the islanders had evidently never heard of the FalseCause fallacy.

* The trap that the women of Summersisle, a place where their main product is bees and honey, use in order to lure men in to eventually be sacrificed by means of the Wicker Man by having them impregnate a woman and later lure him in presumably by means of their future daughter? It's a HoneyTrap.

* Why did Sister Honey get beat so easily in the remake? She's used to the men on the island not fighting back. [[spoiler: She let him hit her so they could spot the sacrifice.]]

* The reason this film feels too much like a comedy is because that's the only experience Neil Labute has when it comes to directing movies, since comedies are the only type of movies he's ever directed.

* Why did Sister Honey get beat so easily in the remake? She's used to the men on the island not fighting back. [[spoiler: She let him hit her so they could spot the sacrifice.]]