Name: Secret Rites
Genre: Drama
Released: 1971-10-18
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Rating: 4.8
Cast: Penny Beeching, Shirley Harmer, Lee Peters

Absolutely hilarious pseudo-documentary supposedly educating us about modern, well early 1970's, witchcraft and wicca.

Alex Sanders, real-life King of Witches, with his dreary sounding Lancashire accent and balding scalp, looks and sounds more like Alex Sanders, real-life King of Trainspotters. He exhibits about as much charisma as a brick, although he does also wear a very fetching polo-neck sweater at one point!!

The initiation and wedding ceremonies look like outtakes from a Carry On film and I kept expecting Sid James & Barbara Windsor to pop up with their signature laughs, while director Derek Ford spends most of the runtime focussing on naked breasts.

You have to love the 1970's.

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