The Virgin Sacrifice

The Virgin Sacrifice (1970)

**** (out of 4)

J.X. Williams wrote and directed this bizarre short about a woman who can't talk who goes to see about an apartment where she meets two woman. One woman says that her job is to work for Satan and soon they go to a basement where we see a sacrifice.

I honestly can't believe that I've been into exploitation for so long and had never heard of this film or of its director. That's really too bad because this here is a rather remarkable film that deserves to be much better known. It's an incredibly bizarre little film that works on so many levels but it's clear that Williams had a certain visual style that could only be compared to what most people experience during an acid trip.

I say that because this film (as well as PSYCH-BURN) have a lot of bizarre, psychedelic images that have all sorts of weird things going on. We see some naked people dancing around. There's a shot of someone being murdered. There's even an animated sequence with countless skeletons doing weird things. This entire film has a very dark and rather creepy atmosphere and it's something like the films released by Something Weird Video, although this here is so much better than anything I've seen from them. If you're a fan of the bizarre then this here is a must see.

The idea that some people out there are dumb enough to believe the fake "backstory" for this ineptly-edited collage of preexisting material that was submitted to IMDb (who apparently have completely given up their verification process in recent years) OR the release year of 1974 OR the entire career and all of the fake credits for this supposed director?

This is not a real film. And it's not a real short. And it's not something a person with talent puts out there, which includes the laughable and horribly stupid fanfic said person created about the "production".

After swiping the two minute intro from the porn Devil's Due (1973) this then cuts to blue-tinted footage stolen from Dario Argento's Opera (1987) before cutting to footage stolen from I Drink Your Blood (1970), Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971) and other films (mostly psychedelia), including some animation.

People praising some of this footage should be off praising the people who actually created it not this ineptly edited pastiche of stolen footage, which should not even be listed on here as an actual movie.