# Witchfinder General (1968)

Witchfinder General is a 1968 British period folk horror film directed by Michael Reeves and starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell and Rupert Davies. The screenplay, by Reeves and Tom Baker, was based on Ronald Bassett's 1966 novel Witchfinder General. Set during the English Civil War, following Matthew Hopkins, a sadistic witch hunter, who exploits the chaos to torture and execute those accused of witchcraft. The story centers on Richard Marshall, a soldier who seeks revenge against Hopkins after he and his assistant harm his fiancée and her family.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1968
- By: Michael Reeves
- Genres: Drama, Horror, Science fiction, History
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/witchfinder-general-1968)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Made from: Witchfinder General, Ronald Bassett's novel of 1966: protected in the United States, as it was first published in 1966, and the renewal of a work of 1964 to 1977 was automatic (17 U.S.C. §304(a)(2)(B)), so it is protected in the United States until the end of 2061.
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1968; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2063. Unclear is not offered.