| Witchfinder General | 
enlarge | Director: Michael Reeves Actors: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell (ii) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Category: DVD
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Format: Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Unrated Number Of Items: 1 Running Time: 87 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: M108765 UPC: 027616087652 EAN: 0027616087652
Theatrical Release Date: 1968 Release Date: September 11, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: BRAND NEW, Factory Sealed items direct from the Studios. 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee. Quick International Airmail!
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Amazon.com By 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
Product Description Set in 17th century England during the violent early days of Cromwell's rule THECONQUEROR WORM is Michael Reeves' dark violent tale of the infamous 17th century witchhunter Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price). A failed lawyer Hopkins practiced his wicked trade throughout the British countryside for nearly a decade capitalizing on the instability and tumultuous upheavals created by the English Civil War. After years of unchallenged torture and sadistic murder the witchfinder finally meets his match when until he runs afoul of an army officer who vows revenge.System Requirements:Running Time: 86 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 027616087652 Manufacturer No: M108765
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