{"id":14555,"date":"2021-10-24T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2021-10-23T22:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T02:08:24","slug":"witchfinder-general-1968-michael-reeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14555","title":{"rendered":"Witchfinder General (1968, Michael Reeves)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was pretty good, and less than half the length of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14554\">Woodlands Dark &#038; Days Bewitched<\/a><\/em>, which I watched as an extended intro.  After his men and horses died with bright red paint for blood, romantic lead Ian Ogilvy (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3523\">Puppet Master 5<\/a><\/em> and a Peter Cushing haunted junk shop movie called <em>From Beyond the Grave<\/em>) returns home to marry his beloved Sara (Hilary Dwyer, who&#8217;d return to Vincent Price and witches in <em>Cry of the Banshee<\/em>) with the blessing of her preacher dad.  Meanwhile, Vincent Price is going from town to town with his brute beardo torturer sidekick Robert Russell (of the pre-<em>Revenant<\/em> <em>Man in the Wilderness<\/em>) getting paid for ferreting out witches, who are drowned using the <em>Monty Python &#038; The Holy Grail<\/em> technique or burned or whatever&#8217;s convenient.<\/p>\n<p><em>Villains:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/witchfinder1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Next time Ian is away, the witchfinders roll into town.  Price&#8217;s game is to get cash and get hot women.  Sara agrees to sleep with him for a time, but he drowns her dad and brands her a witch, and Ian forgives her (weird for a dude in a period film) then sets to hunting the hunters.  Price is on the outs with Beardo and has to hire a substitute torturer in the next town, finally gets beaten to death when Ian catches up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Appreciate that the townspeople left her alone except to enter her house with ladders and put up this witch sign like a happy birthday banner:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/witchfinder2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Reeves and DP John Coquillon (soon to join Peckinpah) acquit themselves nicely, with a lotta zooms, some nicely framed closeups, a real cool water-to-fire transition.  The sound editor however had a minute of anguished cries and kept looping them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was pretty good, and less than half the length of Woodlands Dark &#038; Days Bewitched, which I watched as an extended intro. After his men and horses died with bright red paint for blood, romantic lead Ian Ogilvy (Puppet Master 5 and a Peter Cushing haunted junk shop movie called From Beyond the Grave) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,102,144,886,320],"class_list":["post-14555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-britain","tag-revenge","tag-vincent-price","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14580,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions\/14580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}