95 Lisson Grove, NW1

Director Michael Reeves began his career with the understandably microbudget Revenge of the Blood Beast, a campy horror flick made in Italy, and finished with the awesome Witchfinder General, before succumbing to a drugs overdose at the age of 24.

Between those two films, in 1967, he made The Sorcerers. Horror legend Boris Karloff (in one of his last roles) and Catherine Lacey play an elderly couple anticipating virtual reality with a hypnotic device – apparently operating on the same sixties disco light-show principle as the Ipcress device. Antique shop manager Ian Ogilvy is the youngster through whom they experience the vicarious pleasures of biking, stealing and serial killing. 95 Lisson Grove, at Broadley Street, astonishingly unchanged amid the wholesale renovation of the district, was ‘The Glory Hole’, Ogilvy’s antique shop. And – guess what? – it really is an antique shop.

The Sorcerers (1967, dir: Michael Reeves)