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Witchfinder General Overview:

Witchfinder General (1968) was a Drama - Horror Film directed by Michael Reeves and produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, Tony Tenser, Louis M. Heyward, Arnold L. Miller and Philip Waddilove.

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Witchfinder General (1968)

Witchfinder General (AKA “The Conqueror Worm”) Directed by Michael Reeves Written by Tom Baker and Michael Reeves from a novel by Louis M. Heywood 1968/UK IMDb link First viewing/YouTube Included in They Shoot Zombies Don’t They? A handsome horror film worthy of one of Vincent Pric... Read full article


BEWARE! THE WITCHFINDER GENERAL IS COMING…

Coming to London’s Rio Cinema on Saturday 16th February @11:30pm Cigarette Burns Cinema presents the Tigon horror classic Witchfinder General (1968). Starring Vincent Price as the dreaded Matthew Hopkins, whose sole task was to weed out the witches and the ungodly, this is one cult film that ... Read full article


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Witchfinder General Quotes:

Matthew Hopkins: By the way, you know what they call me now?
John Stearne: What?
Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General.

[Hopkins and his men throw three securely-bound people into the moat as a witchcraft test]
Matthew Hopkins: They swim... the mark of Satan is upon them. They must hang.

Matthew Hopkins: Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.

[Stearne eludes Marshall to warn the Witchfinder General]
John Stearne: He's after our blood!
Matthew Hopkins: You're forgetting our powers... he could be a witch.

[last lines]
[United States Conqueror Worm versions]
Matthew Hopkins: [voiceover] Out-out are the lights-out all!/And over each quivering form/The curtain, a funeral pall,/Comes down with the rush of a storm,/While the angels, all pallid and wan,/Uprising, unveiling, affirm/That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,'/And its hero, the Conqueror Worm."
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Witchfinder General Facts
Robert Russell was re-voiced by Bernard Kay.

A completely new score was written for the US video release by Kendall Schmidt.

Vincent Price regarded his performance here as the finest of his horror movie career.

Michael Reeves' final film, shot September 18-November 13 1967. One year later, Reeves was replaced by Gordon Hessler on "The Oblong Box," and died early in 1969.

Director Michael Reeves wanted Donald Pleasence to play Matthew Hopkins, but AIP, the American distributor and co-financier of the film, insisted that Vincent Price play the title character, and Reeves grudgingly accepted.

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