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Witchfinder General

He'll hang, burn, and mutilate you. He's the… Witchfinder General

6.5(281)19681h 27m4

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

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Status
Released
Budget
$83K
Box office
$1.5M
Language
English
  • rape
  • based on novel or book
  • witch burning
  • false accusations
  • religious fundamentalism
  • sadistic torture
  • witch hunt
  • english civil war
  • 17th century
  • folk horror
  • suffolk, england
  • forced sex

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Premiere15 May 1968
    • TheatricalNR17 May 1968
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1819 May 1968
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1523 Feb 1970
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1610 Sept 1969
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1611 Apr 1969
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical26 Oct 1968
  • MexicoMX

    • Theatrical31 Dec 1970
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical12 Mar 1970
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical23 Jan 1969
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1512 Oct 1970

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Witchfinder General was released on 17 May 1968.

Audience reviews

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  • T

    talisencrw

    4/29/2016

    9/10

    An undeniably brilliant swan song for the ill-fated directorial prodigy Reeves, with remarkable vision, and a ghastly sadistic performance by Vincent Price. Hard to like the film because it gets under your skin with its brutality and just stays there, eating you from within. A very fine work that stays with you, hauntingly.

  • W

    Wuchak

    6/5/2022

    7/10

    _**Cinema's account of the infamous Matthew Hopkins**_ The infamous witch-finding exploits of Matthew Hopkins in Eastern England circa 1646 are chronicled based on Ronald Bassett’s 1966 novel. Hopkins (Vincent Price) and his colleague John Stearne travel from village to village brutally torturing "confessions" out of suspected witches and charging the local magistrates for the "work" they carry out. "Witchfinde…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/3/2023

    7/10

    Vincent Price is superb in this depiction of the tyrannical, evil "Matthew Hopkins", tasked amidst the English Civil War to bring fear and terror to the population. Playing to just about every phobia and superstition, he travels the land seeking out and punishing those who worship or serve the devil... There is a magnificent scene in which he divines that a man dropped into the river with stones tied about him will b…

  • F

    FolknHell

    8/25/2026

    4/10

    *Witchfinder General* has somehow spent decades sitting at folk horror’s top table while behaving rather like someone who wandered into the wrong wedding reception and nobody had the nerve to ask for their invitation. It certainly looks the part. Michael Reeves gives us Civil War England, open East Anglian countryside, witchcraft accusations, Puritan hats and Vincent Price stalking from village to village as Matth…

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