Children of The Wicker Man: The True Story Behind One of the Most Remarkable Films Ever Made

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Justin Hardy Dominic Hardy

Children of The Wicker Man

Name: Children of The Wicker Man
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ISBN: 9781803995106

The True Story Behind One of the Most Remarkable Films Ever Made

Justin Hardy, Dominic Hardy, Chris Nunn

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English

Miscellaneous
01 February 2026

Film theory & criticism; Popular culture

50 years on from the making of The Wicker Man (1973), director Robin Hardy's lost papers come to his filmmaker son.

Justin was always conflicted over the exalted claims made for the film: for him, The Wicker Man destroyed his family. His brother Dominic has been more distanced. The Wicker Man is a set of fragmented stories: benighted production, brutal editing, critical reception, financial failure, and later revival. Using the newly uncovered sources, the brothers investigate what Robin Hardy's creative contribution to The Wicker Man was, and consider who was truly sacrificed. They reveal an unlikely heroine: Justin's mother, who bankrupted herself paying loans to her husband and the film, only for him to leave when it flopped. The brothers agree she should be justly regarded as executive producer of the film she never knew was a success. For all women behind artist husbands, this book reveals a series of heroines: the mothers of the children of The Wicker Man.

AUTHORS: Justin Hardy is an award-winning historian filmmaker for the BBC, Channel 4, CNN and ARTE. He directed Christopher Lee in A Feast at Midnight (1994), and Iain Glen/Ian McDiarmid in City of Vice (2009).

Dominic Hardy is a visual artist and art historian, specialising in the history of visual satire, who teaches at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

19 colour, 100 b/w illustrations

By: Justin Hardy, Dominic Hardy
Edited by: Chris Nunn
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781803995106
ISBN 10: 1803995106
Publication Date: 01 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

DOMINIC HARDY is a visual artist and art historian, specialising in the history of visual satire, who teaches at the Université du Québec à Montréal. JUSTIN HARDY is an award-winning historian filmmaker for the BBC, Channel 4, CNN and ARTE. He directed Christopher Lee in A Feast at Midnight (1994), and Iain Glen/Ian McDiarmid in City of Vice (2009).