Parents Guide for
The Wicker Man (1973) More at IMDbPro »

Sexuality is a large part of the film and many characters discuss frankly (though not graphically) discuss sex and procreation throughout the entire movie.

A teacher explains phallic symbols to her female pupils, while outside, another teacher sings a mildly bawdy song with a group of young boys.

The Landlord's Daughter, sung by many of the islanders in the Green Man inn, is a bawdy song highly suggestive of Willow's (Britt Ekland) sexual proclivity. Willow appears to accept this as a compliment and dances in a suggestive way with Oak (Ian Campbell).

Several partially clad and naked couples are seen apparently copulating outside at night.

A naked woman with breasts in clear view is seen sat crying against a gravestone.

Director's Cut only: The song Gently Johnny describes a sexual encounter.

Director's Cut only: The sounds of Willow (Britt Ekland) and Ash (Richard Wren) having sex are heard.

A woman is seen breastfeeding an infant. Most of her chest is exposed.

Naked young women are seen dancing and jumping through a fire. (In most shots it is apparent that the women are wearing skin-colored bodysuits.) In the same scene, a woman in a semi-opaque white gown is shown walking through a field.

A young woman (Willow) dances naked. Her breasts are shown in medium close-up and there are full length views of her back and buttocks.

A man walks into a room to find a naked woman in the bath. She seductively exposes her breasts to him.

Several island women play sexually suggestive games with the Hobbyhorse and Punch during the procession, mostly involving waggling their bottoms at the characters and allowing themselves to be spanked or chased.

Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) hits Alder MacGregor (Lindsay Kemp) on the head with a candlestick, knocking the man unconscious. He is later seen alive and unharmed.

Six swordsmen are seen apparently decapitating a dancer. No blood is shown (and the "head" is immediately revealed to be a hollow dummy).

Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) punches an islander in the face.

Oak (Ian Campbell) throws Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) to the ground and then physically restrains him.

Superficial amounts of blood are seen on Sergeant Howie's face after his run through the caves.

A character frequently shouts "God!" and "Jesus!" but at the time, he is literally pleading for God and Jesus to help him.

Many of the islanders are seen drinking, smoking and cavorting in the Green Man inn.

Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) drinks a pint of beer with his meal.

The gravedigger (Aubrey Morris) smokes a pipe.

Islanders are shown drinking and cavorting on the morning of May Day.

Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) asks for a glass of whisky, which he downs in one.

In the undertaker's, Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward), removes the lid of a coffin to reveal an elderly woman's body with amputated hand and bloody stump.

A young girl falls out of a closet, apparently dead. She quickly gets up, laughing, revealing this to be a prank.

A man is burned alive (along with many animals) inside the Wicker Man.