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Witchfinder General was popular in Germany and inspired new films in the same genre. [66] Similar films fully or partially financed by German production companies included Mark of the Devil , The Bloody Judge and Hexen geschändet und zu Tode gequält , released in the U.S. as Mark of the Devil Part II .
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
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.
- Michael Reeves
- Tigon British Productions Ltd.
- Arnold Louis Miller
- Michael Reeves
Witchfinder General is a film of social collapse, one of a world weaponising belief to justify violence in a pastoral English setting. Nothing is nastier than folk and Witchfinder General finds horrors that only mortals would choose to create. My Top Films of the 1960s My Top Horror Films
- (14.9K)
- Tigon British Film Productions
- Michael Reeves
Apr 25, 2020 · Adrian Halen 04/25/2020 Film Reviews. Set in 17th-century England, this chilling tale follows corrupt official Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price), who claims an ability to discover witches. But he uses his power to gain money and favors from people he’s fingered in return for declaring them innocent. When he arrests and tortures Father Lowes ...
Feb 20, 2023 · When "Witchfinder General" was released in 1968, it joined a wave of similarly-themed films from both Britain and abroad, including Ken Russell's controversial "The Devils," "Witchhammer" from ...
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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).
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