Witchfinder General
by Michael Reeves
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Actor: Hilary Heath, Ian Ogilvy, Robert Russell, Rupert Davies, Vincent PriceDirector: Michael Reeves
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Writer: Michael Reeves
Producer: Arnold L. Miller
Producer: Louis M. Heyward
Writer: Louis M. Heyward
Writer: Edgar Allan Poe
Writer: Ronald Bassett
Writer: Tom Baker
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Witchfinder General
Movie Review: The best scene was cut!
Summary: 1 Stars
I feel cheated by this DVD. The best scene has been cut in which a group of women are tried, lots of sadistic torture, very intense. It is the pivotal scene in the movie and has been cut unjustly. Unrated? Bull. The stink of censors is all over this.
Summary of Witchfinder General
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 86 minutes Rating: NrBy consensus, Vincent Price's finest performance among his gallery of horror-movie rogues comes in Witchfinder General, the intense 1968 film that erased any hint of camp from the actor's persona. Price plays Matthew Hopkins, a sadistic 17th-century "witchfinder" who uses barbaric methods to identify (and invariably execute) supposed witches. Along with Price's disciplined work, Witchfinder is also the best film by the talented and ill-fated director Michael Reeves, who was only 24 when he shot the movie. Blessed with a great feeling for English landscapes and an eye for blackly telling details (peasants roasting potatoes in the ashes of a burned witch), Reeves was clearly a promising filmmaker, who died in 1969 from a drug overdose. The most vivid thing about Witchfinder General is the way it explicitly links paranoia and witch-hunting to misogyny, and how female sexual energy is seen by the ruling order as a threat. The final sequence is perhaps the most harrowing fade-out of any Sixties horror picture, and offers no comforting resolution.
Included on the Witchfinder package is a disc of three featurettes: a half-hour bio, the 12-minute Art of Fear that looks at his horror work (with the expected focus on the other films in this box set), and a 15-minute piece on other actors working with Price (although these actors are not interviewed, just the gallery of experts who speak in the other docs). The Witchfinder disc includes a valuable backgrounder on the movie, including the story behind the original U.S. release of the film, titled The Conqueror Worm (to cash in on Price's connection to Edgar Allan Poe works, which this is not), plus a commentary with producer Philip Waddilove and Michael Reeves' favored leading man, Ian Ogilvy. --Robert Horton
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