Review #340: The Wicker Tree (2011)
October 2025 Holiday Horror Review #13 - The Wicker Tree (2011) Watch it here on YouTube! The Wicker Tree is about a pair of Texan missionaries- an apparently world-famous singer named Beth and her cowboy fiance Steve- who go on a mission trip to Scotland, where Beth is supposed to sing some Christian songs and lead some worship services for the people in a small community there. (At least... I think that's what their goal was, the two of them are apparently planning this trip to be two years long but after one single performance at a Scottish church in the city they're seemingly free to go bugger off into the countryside at the request of a couple they meet, so I'm not entirely sure what was intended at the start.) They attract the attention of a couple who lead a religious cult, and the cult attempts to seduce them in order to eventually sacrifice them in a pagan ritual to grant their village fertility and prosperity, exactly as you've seen in other similar folk horro...