Rainbow Reel: Witchfinder General

So I'll apologize right here in advance. I got a little bit ranty about a certain topic during this video, however aside from that we take a look at this somewhat historically dubious depiction of Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, staring Vincent Price. BURN THE WITCH!

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Rainbow Reel
• Cinema
• Movie
• Review
• cult
• classic
• horror
• witch
• witchfinder
• general
• heretic
• Vincent Price

[DocHackenbush]

You only gave your speech to justify this Benny Hill-Ending! Confess!! ;-)

[RainbowReelcinema]

@DocHackenbush Its how I justify anything I do that will offend someone. Your through the looking glass now!

[thebrb30000]

Good one! I haven't seen Witchfinder General, but I'm a sucker for anything involving Vincent Price. Have you ever seen Bloodbath at the House of Death?

[RainbowReelcinema]

@thebrb30000 No I haven't but with a title as stupidly awesome as that and staring Vincent Price then ask me again in a week and I'll probably say yes.

[DocHackenbush]

@RainbowReelcinema Time to put on some clothes...

[lampyman101]

@RainbowReelcinema I'll PM a link to the amazon UK site as it's the cheapest place to get it. Apparently it's being developed into a Hollywood Biopic.

[johnnyhorror92182]

@RainbowReelcinema It is weird. I do not know how to explain it, but maybe it all comes down to the taste of the reader...but there is a growing segment of readers (who I kinda view as the extreme right-wing of fans) who want comics to be "more reader friendly" and go back to that innocent age where nothing bad happens.

Also, if you want to read a really dark, disturbing, balls-to-the-wall horror story, look up the Trade Collection of a comic called "CROSSED". It's fucked up...

[RainbowReelcinema]

@johnnyhorror92182 Oh weird, we have never had a problem with that over here at all. Any issue of a normal comic goes by without a whisper no matter what the content inside it is.

[johnnyhorror92182]

@RainbowReelcinema Here in the States, books like "Watchmen" and "From Hell" are seen "Classics" among comic fans. But when more controversial, violent or adult content is brought into more mainstream books (spiderman, batman, JLA) then shit hits the fan and snobby fanboys call for the writers head.

[RainbowReelcinema]

@johnnyhorror92182 I don't read many comics or graphic novels but I remember wanting to take a look at Alan Moore's 'From Hell'. It wasn't banned in Australia outright but there was such a hate campaign launched against it that it was impossible to buy. Finally got a copy though and oh boy, blew my mind. More than Watchmen even. Something about it is just amazing to me. Its not just one of the best graphic novels I have read but its one of the best works of literature that I have read.

[RainbowReelcinema]

@SCOTTISHFILMFAN Cheers for the kind comments as usual mate. I highly recommend this film but if your ordering it for the love of god make sure you get the uncut version. The film will be bad quality sometimes because the cut scenes were mastered from an alternative source but its worth having them in there, mainly to contribute to the mood of the ending.