IMDb plot summary: A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch-hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancée and kills her uncle.
Directed by Michael Reeves. Starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, and Hilary Heath.
I had absolutely zero idea what this was about when I started watching it, and it turns out to be a really engaging little movie, if a little cheesy in its execution at times. It's refreshingly *different* from most of the other 1968 movies I've been watching. Vincent Price is surprisingly subtle as the villain. The film is very darkly lit throughout, which is probably mostly a flaw, but I found it to work very well as immersion into the 1600s setting of the story. I had a good time with this one.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Witchfinder General > A Scanner Darkly
Witchfinder General > Hoodwinked!
Witchfinder General < Chariots of Fire
Witchfinder General < The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Witchfinder General < Man on the Moon
Witchfinder General > Hawking
Witchfinder General < Elf
Witchfinder General < Jack Goes Boating
Witchfinder General < Queen of Katwe
Witchfinder General < Black Narcissus
Witchfinder General < Crocodile Dundee
Witchfinder General < The Bells of St. Mary's
Final spot: #731 out of 3120.
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