Walton Films had already released a number of Tigon titles, ‘Witchfinder General’, ‘Curse of the Crimson Altar’, ‘Black Beauty’, ‘Hannie Caulder’ and ‘Doomwatch’, but we knew there were still a were a number of titles we would be able to market. They had their offices in Hammer House in Wardour Street and it only took one visit to conclude the deal. Our choices were, ‘The Sorcerers’, ‘The Blood Beast Terror’, The Blood on Satan’s Claw’, The Creeping Flesh’, ‘What’s Good for the Goose’, ‘Virgin Witch’ and a short ‘Simon Simon’. ‘The Sorcerers’ was the second of just three feature films directed by Michael Reeves and would turn out to be Boris Karloff’s penultimate British movie. He and Catherine Lacey put in excellent performances, in a story of an aging hypnotist who creates a device that allows them to control the mind of another person, however the twisted wife abuses its power by manipulating a young man to commit murder. I don’t know how it performed at UK cinemas, but I can say that except for ‘What’s Good for the Goose’, it was the slowest mover of the deal.The label was a simple design using Karloff as the selling point.
Label courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’
Leave a Reply