1971
Director- Ray Austin
Cast- Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Patricia Haines, Neil
Hallett, Keith Buckley
Two
sisters, Christine and Betty (played by real life sisters Ann and Vicki
Michelle) are young and beautiful and hoping to make it as models. Christine
auditions for a rather sexually aggressive agent, Sybil, who lures Christine
out for a weekend shoot at an estate in the country, with her sister Betty
along for the ride.
Christine
attracts the attention of the photographer who finds several flimsy excuses to
get her progressively more naked. The
sisters discover that the Lord of the estate and Sybil are witches. They
initiate Christine into the coven under the auspices that they practice white
magic.
Sybil,
the High Priestess of the coven, “fancies birds” and has her eye on the sisters
and wants to initiate Betty into the coven. Christine, who seems helpless at
the beginning of the film, actually turns out to be pretty conniving and
ambitious. Christine has psychic powers (that are evidenced throughout the film
but never explained). She puts a whammy on Sybil so that she can take over the
top spot.
This was
more of an exploitation film than a horror film. It serves mainly as a vehicle
to see the beautiful Michelle sisters naked. The character of Christine is more
complicated than the movie allows, though Ann does a good job of playing a
manipulative schemer masquerading as a naïve ingénue.
Apparently
the Michelle sisters were not too happy with their involvement in the film. The
film had trouble getting released, probably due to its copious nudity. The
version out now is unedited. The film has an original idea that doesn’t have
the opportunity to realize itself. On the other hand, the Michelle sisters are
really beautiful and worth the price of admission.
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