The Wicker Man vs The Wicker Man

As we approached May Day, it seemed appropriate to do a double feature of The Wicker Man (1973) and The Wicker Man (2006). The first was a nice mystery, in which a policeman is lured to an island off the coast of Scotland with the report of a missing child. The residents of the island practice a particular pagan cult, with a certain amount of carnal display and an attempted seduction of the policeman by a naked, dancing Britt Ekland (who, IMDb notes, called in a stunt double for the shots of her lower half and posterior, since she was a few months pregnant at the time).  The McGuffin, of course, is that the islanders, led by Christopher Lee, need a human sacrifice. The 2006 Nicholas Cage remake turns the pagan cult into a suppressive matriarchy, and the Scottish island to Bowen Island off the coast of British Columbia. Alas, other than the presence of Ellen Burstyn in the Christopher Lee role and the resplendent Leelee Sobieski in Brett Eklund's, there's nothing to recommend the remake.