Sergeant Howie travels to Summerisle, Scotland to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. He soon discovers the tight-knit community has a sinister secret involving pagan rituals and human sacrifice.
British Lion mutilated Hardy’s pagan horror to fit on a double bill with Don’t Look Now and then reportedly used the original negative as landfill under the M3 motorway. The film survived only because a workprint had been sent to Roger Corman. The 2013 "Final Cut" reassembled it from fragments.
Robin Hardy's horror classic was his debut film, and his later efforts did not achieve the same success
