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Virgin Witch

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Yeah, there's this coven of witches, and a couple of cute girls are being lured into it, but that doesn't prevent this film from being only so-so at best. One of the girls becomes the plaything of the head female witch, but any potential eroticism is wasted as they never actually do anything together. Aside from a couple of brief moments when the girls are without their clothes, this film was just plain boring.

Having a lifelong weakness for Witchcraft ceremonies, Black Masses, Covens as well as late 60's/early 70's fashions and Eurobabes, this film from Redemption was a given for a demented mind such as mine. Lots of British strumpets looking fab in micro-mini skirts, boots and figure-revealing fashions, along with copious amounts of nudity in a Hammer-esque tale of witches and warlocks and sleaze, Oh My! As horror, it's hokum, though a few scenes do capture the look and feel one hopes for in movies of this nature; as exploitation it's admirable for those of us who grew up with Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella mags, Hammer and Amicus Horror flicks, Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo paintings. For the rest of you 'virgins', it'll probably suck, so be warned. For the remainder of us Pagans, it's nudity is notable and the cheese index cranked... decide for yourself based on these disclosures...

Unlike many Hammer releases, it at least portrays sex with more than a childish laugh. Overall, this takes itself too seriously and the plot becomes too indistinct towards the end. However, the dated fashion is worth a look as is the squalid fashion photographer. Not to mention the main sisters involved, (later to be seen in the TV series 'Allo Allo'). It seems this was made as an excuse to show plenty of nudity from two highly charming sisters and some poorly constructed witchcraft scenes.

The quality was a huge factor in viewing this. We had a great laugh with the pacing and plot - a sinister lesbian hitting on a not-so-innocent virgin? Yay!! And many of the details in the rituals were realistic and nice to see without the overt demonization that it usually inspires in films. Didn't like the implication that the gay woman was against nature but otherwise lots of fun and not just a little bit of tongue in cheek.

However the quality of the film really let it down - the contrast was rammed up so high in this version that all the blacks were complete black and all the whites absolute white and no amount of fiddling with the TV settings was going to make anything in the black areas become more then black. It meant that anything done in the dark/night (which was most of the climax and well, most of everything else) was impossible to see. I felt like a blind person struggling to make sense of the noises I could hear.

The movie was working well enough to really ruin the last scenes which we couldn't see at all. If there were a better version out there, I would spend extra to buy it - the still on the box cover promises some beautiful full colour images which we simply did not get in the film. I wish it were so much more - I really was having so much fun.