Who played the title role in the 1968 film ‘Witchfinder General’?
Witchfinder General (film) included the film as part of the company's multi-title Vincent Price Blu-ray box set released in fall of 2013. Witchfinder General (film) Witchfinder General is a 1968 British-American 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
Witchfinder General (film) Board of Film Censors. In the US, the film was shown virtually intact and was a box office success, but it was almost completely ignored by reviewers. "Witchfinder General" eventually developed into a cult film, partially attributable to Reeves's 1969 death from a drug overdose at the age of 25, only nine months after "Witchfinder"s release. Over the years, several prominent critics have championed the film, including J. Hoberman, Danny Peary, Robin Wood and Derek Malcolm. In 2005, the magazine "Total Film" named "Witchfinder General" the 15th-greatest horror film of all time. "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn stated in 2016,