The Wicker Man (1974)

Cop spends some time on a remote island investigating the reported disappearance of a young girl. The locals -- from the missing girl's mother down to the children -- go out of their way to make his job extremely difficult. It doesn't help matters that the officer is a goody-two-shoes religious man and the island is actively pagan. And, apparently, "lots of naked" is movie shorthand for pagan. The nudity might have been shocking if there were less of it -- but there was so much that it actually became rather boring.

So. If you were the cop and it was obvious to you that no one WANTS you to figure out what's going on, despite the fact that everyone is, quite obviously, in the know except for you, what would you do? Pretend as though you were satisfied and shake hands all around and leave only to return as soon as possible with loads of backup? Me too. What does this cop do? He threatens everyone and warns them that he'll be back and they'll all be sorry and blah-blah-blah. He's the investigation equivalent of the buxom idiot running up the stairs instead of out the front door when the knife wielding lunatic is chasing her.

Really unique -- but also terribly pretentious.

D+