Overkilling The Wicker Man remake

I first saw The Wicker Man in December 2007 on TV when I was on a month's vacation in Karachi.
We actually opened it in the middle of the movie. One of my parents likes Nicholas Cage's movies and I also got an interest in it. A little later the movie had my complete attention. To see the suspense and the creepiness of the island and the realistic scenario of how easily people can revert to savagery just be situating themselves in a remote area away from the modern world.

Since I did not get to see the movie from the beginning I did not know the title and so I looked it up and then rented it on DVD upon my return to North America where I live.
The movie was a great and realistic horror/suspense movie for fans of such genre to enjoy.

It was upon looking it up that I also discovered the movie was actually a remake of a 1973 version with Christopher Lee in it. I saw the 1973 version on YouTube and was rather puzzled to see comments mocking the remake while praising the original. To me it was them describing the remake when praising the original and describing the original when mocking the remake.

I thought that something is wrong with me, but now I realize it's not me. Some fanatics of originality have a way of underrating remakes and overkilling them even though the original Wicker Man needed a remake. A remake that made up for the original's poor dialogue, cheap acting, childish soundtracks and songs which the lovers of the original found to be "creepy" and "realistic."

The remake had no such. It had no childish singing or cheap special affects that the original had. The "sacrificing" scene was also violent as opposed to the original where the victim didn't even offer any resistance to the cult that was killing him.

I can understand why The Wicker Man is not so popular. I myself wouldn't buy it since it is one of those suspense/horror movies you wouldn't want to see more than once.
But to call it a bad movie or compare it to the original is a joke. This movie had everything needed for a good suspense horror and gave us a brief insight to Celtic mythology, though I have to mention I sense possible stereotypes in the movie.

Readers would have to watch both movies to better understand what I mean. The only negative things about the movie is it calls for sequel due to the way it ended. The other negative thing is the mysterious mother and daughter Nicholas Cage sees in the beginning who disappear without a trace as well as those strange dreams he has, also unexplained.

With or without these mistakes, the 2006 version of The Wicker Man is superior to the original in every way and met it's ambitions as a remake that the original so miserably failed in.