Legend of the Witches/Secret Rites on Blu-ray, DVD and digital [read more]
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Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray/DVD), release on 14 October 2019, with simultaneous iTunes and Amazon release for Legend of the Witches and both films will be available on BFI Player.
An eye-opening exploration of the occult, Malcolm Leigh's X-rated quasi-documentary Legend of the Witches is an imaginative depiction of pagan rituals as they were supposedly practised at the dawn of the downer decade.
Part mondo movie, part counter-cultural artefact, Secret Rites is a side-step towards documentary territory by notorious exploitation stalwart Derek Ford that purports to lift the veil on witchcraft-as-lifestyle-choice in 1970s Notting Hill. On 14 October, BFI Flipside will presents these films together in a Dual Format Edition, packed with an array of brilliant extras.
This release will be launched with a special event at BFI Southbank on Monday 14 October at 18:15. After a screening of Legend of the Witches, Doug Weir, BFI Technical Manager, who oversaw digital remastering, and witchcraft scholar Christina Oakley Harrington, PhD FRSA, director of Treadwells Books, will discuss the film with programmers William Fowler and Vic Pratt.
