Witchfinder General (1968) aka The Conqueror Worm (Shout! Factory Remastered 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 2.0 Commentary) Michael Reeves Vincent Price Ian Ogilvy Hilary Dwyer Robert Russell Rupert Davies
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Witchfinder General
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches.
Witchfinder General (1968), aka The Conqueror Worm, directed by Michael Reeves, Shout! Factory remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical stereo, two commentary tracks, and English subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063285/
Video encoded in two-pass 9 200 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.
English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected.
Note : One of the "Unholy Trinity" of British folk horror, the originators of the genre, along with The Blood on Satan's Claw and The Wicker Man, this is a deeply nihilistic story about sadistic for-profit "Witchfinder" Matthew Hopkins (a real historical figure, but a lot of creative liberties are taken here), and a English Civil War soldier who swears to hunt him down and kill him, only to, well, you know how the whole "stare into the abyss" thing goes. Vincent Price hams it up just enough to sell his disagreeable role, the other actors are also quite good, Patrick Wymark from The Blood on Satan's Claw makes a small appearance as Cromwell. It's not particularly graphic, but it's really very brutal and unflinching, and the accused "witches" show some quite genuine-seeming terror before being summarily put to death.
This is a good-looking remaster, I could perhaps have wished for better management of saturation, since some reds are extremely bright, while the rest of the color palette is very muted, but all in all it looks very good. Sound is fine too, and the two commentary tracks shed light on British horror film making of the period, as well as director Michael Reeves, who tragically died just a few months after this was released.
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Video : HEVC / [email protected]@Main / 9 197 kb/s / 1 920 x 1 040 pixels / 1.85:1 / 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS / *Default
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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 212 kb/s / 2 channels / Original theatrical stereo / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 128 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary with producer Philip Waddilove and actor Ian Ogilvy, moderated by Steve Haberman / English
Audio #3 : AAC LC / 128 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary with author Benjamin Halligan and filmmaker Michael Armstrong / English
Text #1 : SRT / 51 b/s / English
Chapters
00:00:00.000 : Witch Hanging
00:02:46.291 : Main Titles
00:04:35.400 : Skirmish
00:10:20.495 : Marriage Consent
00:14:49.430 : Early to Bed
00:16:54.430 : The Lord's Work
00:20:17.758 : Corrupted by Satan
00:25:32.573 : Strange Motives
00:29:22.010 : The Spy
00:32:39.833 : Confess!
00:34:29.442 : Stearne in Charge
00:37:17.986 : Due Process
00:42:34.594 : The Awful Truth
00:44:43.848 : At Your Service
00:49:10.948 : He's After Us
00:55:56.937 : Leave of Absence
00:58:16.159 : Extermination Business
01:03:12.080 : Female Ungodliness
01:04:51.179 : Scoldier's Missions
01:09:33.878 : Witch Burning
01:12:57.206 : Witchfinder General
01:15:33.279 : Accused
01:16:57.905 : Torture
01:19:16.418 : No Mercy
01:25:06.852 : End Titles
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