Shown on Legend Xtra last night, this Britishhorror feature - a co-production from Tigon
Films and American International Pictures -
was loosely based on the HP Lovecraft short
story, The Dreams in the Witch House.
Scripted by Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010)
and Henry Lincoln (1930-2022), the story
centred on the typically gothic tropes of black magic cults and human sacrifice.
Released in 1968, the film (titled The Crimson
Cult in America) featured iconic genre actors Christopher Lee (1922-2015) and Boris Karloff (1887-1969), and nine other Doctor Who cast
and crew connections:
- Mark Eden [born Douglas John Malin] (Manning) played the titular Venetian (pictured left) in Marco Polo, and depicted Donald Baverstock in An Adventure in Space and Time
- [Francis] Michael Gough (Elder) was the titular entity in The Celestial Toymaker, and Councillor Hedin in Arc of Infinity
- Virginia Wetherell (Eve) was Dyoni in The Daleks
- Roger Avon (Sergeant) was Saphadin in The Crusade, and Daxtar in (episode 4 of) The Daleks' Master Plan
- Ron [Henry] Pember (Attendant) voiced Seedle for Slipback
- Nicholas Head (Blacksmith) was a Thal in Dr. Who and the Daleks
- Fred [Thomas] Wood (Acolyte) was Running Man in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
- Elizabeth Blattner was a make-up artist on 100,000 BC too, then the make-up supervisor on The Daleks
- property master John Poyner was sound editor on the second Dalek film
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