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zkrat

Loved it, setting, style and and characters ... my kind of movie.

10 years 7 months ago

Although Price wasn't as menacing as I've seen him before, it was a different Price for me. This one was sexually overt instead of romantically frightening. But at the same time, he seemed to have a guilt about it. Either way, my favorite part was spoiler

Great movie, if only for that part alone.

10 years 6 months ago

maarow

I saw Ken Russell's The Devils for the first time this year and honestly, I think Witchfinder General suffers by comparison. It felt like a very superficial experience--Hopkins just comes across as a mustache-twirling villain. No depth of insight into his character or the times that permitted such sadism in the name of Christ.

2 years 9 months ago

Nightwalker

Well, that was disappointing... I learned about this movie through doom metal bands like Witchfinder General and Cathedral, so my expectations were somewhat different than what I saw. I don't really know what I expected (maybe something more in the lines of A Field in England), but in any case something far less conventional than what I saw. It surprises me that this movie was so heavily cut in censorship. Maybe I underestimated the conservative sentiments in 1960s Britain... In any case, apart from Vincent Price, nothing about Witchfinder General makes me feel like I'm watching a horror movie. Some imagery certainly gives away director Michael Reeves' sentiment to the genre, but I thought he would've added more of an occult sensation in the picture. If Reeves didn't die an unfortunate young death a few months after this was released, I don't think it would've become such a cult hit...

9 years 4 months ago