Virgin Witch – 1970 | 88 mins | Horror | Colour

Plot Synopsis

The Virgin Witch is an erotic Tigon horror directed by former stuntman and tv director Ray Austin from a script by Beryl Vertue. The film was shot in 1970 but it took Tigon two further years to get the film into theatres due to difficulties clearing the BBFC film censor. Blending horror and unabashed sexploitation in a contemporary setting, the film appears rather timid and kitsch today and very typical of the sex-romp era.

Provincial sisters Christine (Ann Michelle) and Betty (Vicky Michelle) are two girls recently arrived in London and seeking employment. The cautious Betty warns her sister against modelling, but the self-assured Christine meets pseudo-lesbian agent Sybil Waite (Patricia Haines), and accepts a modelling assignment. The bogus modelling agency is little more than a ruse to draw attractive females into a Home Counties witches’ coven so that they can be used in a ritual sacrifice.

Betty goes along as her sister’s chaperone, and the High Priest of the white witch’s coven, Gerald Amberly (Neil Hallett), takes an interest in both girls. Amberly believes that Christine has genuine psychic powers and could be willingly inducted into the coven, whilst her virgin sister would make a suitable candidate. The fearsome Sybil mocks his white witchcraft and wishes to engage the coven in dark satanic rituals. Christine is duly initiated a witch, and when Sybil declares she wishes to induct her reluctant sister, the two lock horns.