The Wicker Man (1973) dir. Robin Hardy

The climactic burning scene took place inside a vast colossus at Burrowhead, in which Howie faces a fiery end along with a menagerie of sacrificial cattle. “I’ve done an awful lot of things in the years since that picture was made,” Edward Woodward said in an interview, “but never, ever have I been so frightened as when I was in the wicker man itself. It was horrifying. The heat was intense and I felt at times that I was really burning.”