Virgin Witch

Virgin Witch is a British horror sexploitation film directed by Ray Austin and starring Ann and Vicki Michelle, Patricia Haines and Neil Hallett.

Adair is credited only as the co-writer of the song "You Go Your Way" (performed by the character Abby Darke), and did not admit to co-producing Virgin Witch until 1975, when she featured in an episode of the BBC's Man Alive about sex films.

In The Monthly Film Bulletin, Nigel Andrews wrote: "Resourcefully directed sex-and-horror movie which for once gives the illusion of telling a coherent story rather than stitching together a random collection of erotic and macabre set-pieces.

Director Ray Austin (a former stuntman) establishes a sinister sexual tension in the early scenes between Christine and Sybil Waite, and some stylish cutting and sound effects make an impressive Gothic climax of the final torchlit initiation.

Indeed, throughout the film the erotic and the sinister elements are blended effectively enough to make one overlook the usual quota of sex-film inanities (a feeble script, pneumatic but lifeless heroines), while Patricia Haines' Sybil provides a splendidly flamboyant study in Lesbian frustration.

"[6] In 1994, Mark Kermode and Peter Dean of Sight & Sound described Virgin Witch as an "amusingly dated British horror-cum-skin-flick" with a script "so bad, it's almost good.

"[7] According to M. J. Simpson, "[w]hat starts off as a pretty crappy movie picks up towards the end, leaning more towards – though never reaching – the sort of unnerving, slightly-too-serious atmosphere of menace that characterised the best witchcraft films (The Devil Rides Out, for example).

[9] Ian Jane of review website DVD Talk sums up Virgin Witch as "not the 'be all, end all' of British horror films" but still "an entertaining and occasionally sleazy slice of Seventies occult-themed picture with some great style and memorable scenes.