
Witchfinder General
Michael Reeves's Witchfinder General (1968) is supposed to be one of British folk horror's sacred texts. FolknHell has questions. Vincent Price terrorises East Anglia, the violence gets nastier than Hammer, and the whole thing starts looking suspiciously like a revenge film with a very good hat.
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Michael Reeves's Witchfinder General (1968) arrives carrying a large reputation. Vincent Price plays Matthew Hopkins, a travelling witch-hunter turning accusation, fear and civil-war chaos into money, sex and violence. It is also routinely named alongside The Blood on Satan's…
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