Conqueror Worm [VHS]

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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792845553
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0792845552
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: June 06, 2000
Running Time: 86 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1968


 

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
This is a movie based on the Edgar Allan Poe story of the "Conqueror Worm"

Amazon.com:
A bewigged Vincent Price goes full-on evil in The Conqueror Worm, based on the life of England's self-proclaimed "Witchfinder General" Matthew Hopkins. Hopkins and his assistant, John Stern, ride through spectacular location shots around England, looking for disciples of the devil to torture and burn. (Indeed, the devil must be at work, for the skies are bright blue even though people keep saying it's nighttime.) Nevertheless, Hopkins and Stern seem to have a knack for picking on the innocent, notably the fiancée of young soldier Richard Marshall. Price turns in another top performance, delicately mixing false piety and sadism with a dash of lecherousness. Can Hopkins be stopped? Will Marshall risk desertion to save his love? Why are those women just sitting around the inn topless? The answers to these questions and more await you in The Conqueror Worm. --Ali Davis

Average Rating:

Rating: - Witches, Witches Everywhere...
Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price) is in the witchfinding business. He travels the countryside, fulfilling his calling as God's judge, looking for witches to eradicate. It's the 1640s, and business is good! Europe is awash in ignorance and superstition. It is the perfect time for the WITCHFINDER GENERAL to apply his techniques in order to seek out and destroy the many children of satan. What is a witch? Why, anyone who displays characteristics that Hopkins says are witch-like. Thankfully, Hopkins is ... Read More

Rating: - It will get under your skin
This is the original version of "Witchfinder General"; about as close to a director's cut as you will get. Some US and VHS versions feature a bad synth soundtrack and additional "wench nudity" to pad the running time. Also some versions were retitled "Conqueror Worm" to try and tie in with Price's work with Roger Corman on the so-called "Poe Films".

This isn't that version. This features the original score and no filler scenes. DVD extras include interviews with some cast members and ... Read More

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Rating: - One of Vincent Price's best
This film is somewhat of a departure for Vincent Price. Here, here is not a supernatural ghoul or goblin, but depicts Matthew Hopkins, a real historical figure who tortured innocents in the name of the cross. This is probably his best performance.

The torture and violence is graphic, but doesnt linger so long on screen as to become distasteful, as in say: "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S.". While this film is definitely not for children, it could probably be safely viewed by an intelligent 11 ... Read More

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Rating: - Witchfinder General
I saw this on the big screen when it was initially released. It seemed a bit more frightening. I review Vincent Price's performance as being quite good. The hero seems to be too impetuous as he seems to get caught or be in the wrong place at the most inopportune moments.

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Rating: - Price at his most dispicable...
Witchfinder General (though American audiences might know it as The Conqueror Worm), released in 1968, is probably one of his better performances int he set as well as being the most disturbing of his career. In this flick Price plays Mathew Hopkins, a lawyer and professional witch finder/executor, a character that's based on an actual witch inquisitor. While making his way through England torturing and executing "confessed" witches (whether they are guilty or not), Hopkins is summoned to a small town ... Read More