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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0932222501709
Feature: THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
Label: Umbrella Entertainment
Manufacturer: Umbrella Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Umbrella Entertainment
Running Time: 82 minutes
Sales Rank: 114840
Studio: Umbrella Entertainment
Features:- THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ),ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Music Video, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s),SYNOPSIS: A corrupt opportunist commits brutal crimes in the name of God and country in this atmospheric period horror tale. In 17th century England, as a people's uprising threatens Lord Cromwell's rule, superstition still rules the land, and the Royalists use this to their advantage by inaugurating a reign of terror in the name of wiping out alleged witches and agents of the dark arts. Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price) has been appointed 'witchfinder' by Puritan Royalists, and with the help of his thuggish assistant Stearne (Robert Russell), Hopkins travels from town to town, brutally interrogating those accused of witchcraft and using fire, drowning, and torture to extract 'confessions' from the accused. Of course, Hopkins' opinions can be swayed with money and other considerations, and when Father Lowes (Rupert Davies), a priest whose sympathies do not lie with the Royalists, is arrested and tortured by Hopkins and Stearne, his devoted niece Sarah (Hilary Dwyer) is able to stay his punishment by sleeping with Hopkins. Sarah, however, is engaged to marry Marshall (Ian Ogilvy), a soldier in Cromwell's army, and once Marshall learns that the woman he loves has been seduced by Hopkins -- and raped by Stearne -- he becomes determined to expose the witchfinder and punish him for his misdeeds. Witchfinder General was released in the United States by American International Pictures, who in addition to arranging for Vincent Price to play Matthew Hopkins, changed the North American title to The Conqueror Worm, after a poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was read over the credits by Price, though the story bears no real relation to Poe's
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Bleargh. Boring, Nihilistic AND Preachy? No Thanks...
I've seen several reviews of this movie claiming that "Conqueror Worm" (a title this movie is also known as) is Vincent Price's greatest performance. I can only imagine that these people's knowledge of Vinny P. is limited to this movie, because anyone who has actually watched an excellent Price movie like "House on Haunted Hill" or "Last Man On Earth" would view this slice of British 60's schlock as just what it is: an awful film. Boring, preachy and utterly predictable, "Witchfinder General" also ... Read More
Rating: - One of the Most Unspeakably VILE Works Ever Committed to Film!
Back in 1971 I saw CONQUEROR WORM on the bottom of a QUADRUPLE feature of horror films at the Venus Theatre in Houston, TX. I've never forgotten it. I've never been ABLE to. I think director Michael Reeves would be proud of that fact. I went in expecting a film with SOME sort of supernatural aspects. Instead I saw a "HISTORICAL Horror Film", depicting the real-life persecution and legalized MURDER of those who happen to be on the wrong side of the English Civil War. In the midst of it, Vincent Price ... Read More
Rating:  - The Best British Western Ever ? The Witchfinder General
... or maybe the best horror western ever. What you make of this will depend on two things. How much you like old British horror and how much you know about the production of this particular film. When you realize that this is the last production of a young talented Director, Michael Reeves, who died (25 - accidental overdose) on the path to being one of the all time greatest film directors, and that this is his third, last and best film, you will under its value (as an example of his talent watch the ... Read More
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