Witchfinder General
United Kingdom
1968
95 Min
Color
English
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SALESK
1Nov11
Visually rough & unpolished but relentlessly, nihilistically cruel and depraved film that translates its own disgust for all human violence extraordinarily effectively to an audience unaccustomed to its bracing, naked honesty (especially for its time & genre). Revels in demystifying the hero-worship of English military history & fairytale gender relations (the failure of Prince Charming, the ceaseless horrors of war)
Johnny DuBiel
16Oct11
You keep waiting for Price to lose control of his character and fall into his usual hammy schtick, but he never does. While most of his roles can be pared down to campy caricatures of, well, Vincent Price, Matthew Hopkins is a fully realized character. The performance IS over the top, but only in a manner which the film requires. Hopkins is one of the most disgusting figures in cinema. Vastly underappreciated movie
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WITCHFINDER GENERAL Blu-ray Review
By Twitchfilm.com on December 16, 2011
Odeon Entertainment:England is in civil war as the Royalists battle Oliver Cromwell’s Roundheads for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain power
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