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Witchfinder General
Drama, History, Horror
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who can withstand grim historical cruelty and want uncompromising folk horror about institutionalized violence and corrupt authority.
- Tone
- bleak, dread, tense
- Payoff
- catharsis, heartbreak
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- religious fanaticism, false accusation, abuse of power, sexual violence, social chaos
- Setting
- seventeenth-century civil-war England, besieged rural villages and lawless countryside
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Where to watch
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