This film has a paper thin plot about two beautiful sisters who stay at a creepy English manor house on a modeling assignment and end up getting mixed up with the coven of witches that reside there. These two beauties are played by real life sisters Vicki and Ann Michelle (of 1980's BBC sitcom "Allo, Allo" fame) and the sole reason for this movie is really to see them with their clothes off, which it does very well. As for being an occult horror film then it's weak. Smutty fun.

How could a film with such a provocative title be so drab and boring? Released at the height of the seventies exploitation boom, Virgin Witch sadly falls by the wayside of many other similar films. The film sort of like your standard lesbian vampire film, except this time its lesbian witches and instead of being interesting and erotic, it's slow and boring. The plot follows Christine; a young virgin who travels to a modelling agency with her sister in the hope of getting a job. However, it turns out that she wasn't being headhunted for a job after all, as the head of the agency wants Christina to join her witch's coven! Any hopes of this being a gory lesbian sex-fest will not be fulfilled, as the film doesn't feature much in the way of either and director Ray Austin seems more keen to show photo shoots and religious ceremonies than blood and sex, which is odd considering that the film is from the seventies and is titled 'Virgin Witch'. Overall, this film won't do much, even for fans of this sort of stuff. Good elements include the fact that the lead isn't bad looking and that the film isn't on for long. Not recommended.

I was half-expecting this to be even worse than THE BODY STEALERS (1969) and, my viewing of it, certainly proved my fears right! This one's the pits: the title promises nudity and scares (or at least diabolism) - it provides the former in spades, though none of it is erotic, but the latter is only present, if so it can be called, in some silly late-night rituals with nude dancing en masse of old and young witches alike! Tigon only distributed the film and, really, there are no redeeming features to this low-brow venture - whose director was actually an English aristocrat! The premise offers no surprises whatsoever and, in fact, here again we have sisters as the leading characters - one virtuous, one wicked (around this same time, Hammer Films made TWINS OF EVIL [1971] - which were played by Maltese actresses, by the way - and which, alas, I've never watched!). The other characters are stereotypes and the only one who provides any interest is Patricia Haines (formerly Mrs. Michael Caine and who died, at a fairly young age, only a few years later!) as the lesbian High Priestess of the coven.Perhaps the most hilarious scenes are the afore-mentioned rites, Ann Michelle's photo sessions (a modeling agency serves as a front for the coven) and especially when she, a newly-inducted witch, puts a spell on her rival Haines - having suddenly become an expert in the occult merely by reading a book on the subject (Michelle burns a photograph of Haines, and we see the latter's expression in it change gradually to reflect the pain she goes through!). The film was actually shot in 1970 but the BBFC refused it a certificate - realizing, perhaps, that it was pure exploitation and not really a horror film at all; in fact, it only got released when the producers took the film to the apparently more lenient censor boards of individual towns, after which the BBFC relented!

This is a nice piece of time-wasting British exploitation cinema with the delectable Michelle sisters becoming embroiled in witchcraft and various sexy shenanigans in a picturesque country-house setting ('filmed on location in Surrey, England').There's a good score by Ted Dicks, including a rather seductive little tune called 'You go your way', performed by Helen Downing. And effective turns by old-hands like Neil Hallett (as the lecherous head of the coven) and Keith 'Excalibur' Buckley as the excitable investigative boyfriend. A highpoint is the scene-stealing performance by the lovely Patricia Haines ('The Night Caller') as the lesbian boss of a dodgy model agency. She, along with the sisters, disrobes in the hilarious 'initiation ritual' sequence.Get hold of the 1993 Redempton VHS - a good, colourful print.