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Witchfinder General (film)
Witchfinder General
is a 1968 British
horror film
directed by
Michael Reeves
and starring
Vincent Price
,
Ian Ogilvy
, and
Hilary Dwyer
. The screenplay was by Reeves and Tom Baker based on
Ronald Bassett
's novel of the
same name
. Made on a
low budget
of under £100,000, the movie was co-produced by
Tigon British Film Productions
and
American International Pictures
. The story details the heavily fictionalised murderous
witch-hunting
exploits of
Matthew Hopkins
, a 17th-century English lawyer who claimed to have been appointed as a "" by Parliament during the
English Civil War
to root out
sorcery
and
witchcraft
. The film was retitled
The Conqueror Worm
in the United States in an attempt to link it with
Roger Corman
's earlier series of
Edgar Allan Poe
–related films starring Price—although this movie has nothing to do with any of Poe's stories, and only briefly alludes to his
poem
.
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