Witchfinder General
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1968
1h 27m
NR
English
Drama, History, Horror
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Witchfinder General
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
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Cast
Matthew Hopkins
Richard Marshall
John Stearne
Swallow
Sara
John Lowes
Cromwell
Master Loach
Salter
Captain Gordon
Fisherman
Priest
Harcourt
Gifford
Farrier
Elizabeth
Villager #1
Old Woman
Young Woman in Cell
Hanged Woman
Brandeston Innkeeper
Villager #2
Jailer
Girl at Inn #2
Shepherd
Directed By: Michael Reeves
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csrz
/10 3 years ago
It is a time in England when civil war torn the country apart and and law-and-order has broken down. There's a corrupt man, Matthew Hopkins poses as a witchhunter, using bogus accusations to satisfy his greed and lust. One of the victims is a village priest and Hopkins also takes sexual advantag More
CinemaSerf
2 years ago
Vincent Price is superb in this depiction of the tyrannical, evil "Matthew Hopkins", tasked amidst the English Civil War to bring fear and terror to the population. Playing to just about every phobia and superstition, he travels the land seeking out and punishing those who worship or serve the devil More
Wuchak
3 years ago
_**Cinema's account of the infamous Matthew Hopkins**_
The infamous witch-finding exploits of Matthew Hopkins in Eastern England circa 1646 are chronicled based on Ronald Bassett’s 1966 novel. Hopkins (Vincent Price) and his colleague John Stearne travel from village to village brutally torturi More
The infamous witch-finding exploits of Matthew Hopkins in Eastern England circa 1646 are chronicled based on Ronald Bassett’s 1966 novel. Hopkins (Vincent Price) and his colleague John Stearne travel from village to village brutally torturi More
talisencrw
6 years ago
An undeniably brilliant swan song for the ill-fated directorial prodigy Reeves, with remarkable vision, and a ghastly sadistic performance by Vincent Price. Hard to like the film because it gets under your skin with its brutality and just stays there, eating you from within. A very fine work that st More
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