The Witchfinder General
86 minutes,
UK (1968), 18
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(3 / 8 votes)
(3 / 8 votes)
England, 1645: As the country tears itself apart in civil war, a witchfinder takes advantage of the lack of law and order to ply his supposedly holy trade. Burn, baby, burn!
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The Witchfinder General: Something of a landmark in British horror cinema, this is ostensibly an accurate portrait of Matthew Hopkins (Price, playing it completely straight), the notorious Witchfinder General who cut a swathe through 17th-century England.
It actually plays pretty fast and loose with historical facts...
Read the The Witchfinder General full reviewIt actually plays pretty fast and loose with historical facts...
