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  1. Witchfinder General (titled onscreen as Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General) is a 1968 British period folk horror film directed by Michael Reeves and starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell and Rupert Davies. The screenplay, by Reeves and Tom Baker, [ a] was based on Ronald Bassett 's 1966 novel Witchfinder General.

  2. Witchfinder General: Directed by Michael Reeves. With Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath. During the English Civil War, a young Roundhead seeks vengeance against a vicious witch-hunter and his henchman, who have terrorized the soldier's fiancée and wrongfully executed her uncle.

    • (12K)
    • Drama, Horror
    • Michael Reeves
    • 1968-05-17
  3. May 18, 2018 · The film follows Matthew Hopkins ( Vincent Price ), the proclaimed witchfinder general, as he travels through East Anglia during the English civil war on the hunt for supposed witches. In each town and village he visits, mass panic is whipped up in order to justify the interrogation, torture and eventual execution of innocent people, mostly women.

  4. Richard Marshall (Ian Ogilvy) is a young Roundhead. After surviving a brief skirmish and killing his first enemy soldier (and thus saving the life of his Captain), he rides home to Brandeston, Suffolk, to visit his lover Sara (Hilary Dwyer). Sara is the niece of the village priest, John Lowes (Rupert Davies).

  5. A disturbing tale of evil set during the English Civil War. When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his ...

    • (18)
    • Vincent Price
    • Michael Reeves
    • Horror
  6. The last and best film of director Michael Reeves' tragically brief career, Witchfinder General is one of a select few horror films to have transcended their genre to win broad critical admiration - in Britain, perhaps only Peeping Tom (d. Michael Powell, 1960) and The Wicker Man (d. Robin Hardy, 1971) have been similarly favoured.

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  8. Witchfinder General. Details: 1968, UK, Cert 18, 87 mins. Direction:Michael Reeves. Genre: Drama. Summary: Set in Norfolk in 1645, Michael Reeves' final film is a poetic study of the infamous ...

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