“Men sometimes have strange motives”: Witchfinder General at 50

Times of great uncertainty and bloodshed have always seemed to bolster paranoia and irrational thought. Change offers to dispose of the unconscionable practices of the past, but even as old beliefs and practices are on the verge of being swept away, people still to seek them out, retreating into watchful suggestibility any time the pace […]

Blu-ray Review: The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

By Keri O’Shea The marriage of horror and comedy is not only nothing new, but it seems to have been a decidedly less tricky pairing, back when the gore was less protracted and graphic and the laughs depended less on shocks to make viewers laugh-out-loud. The distance between the two was shorter, see, but not […]

UK Blu-Ray Review: Witchfinder General

Witchfinder General (AKA The Conqueror Worm) (1968) Distributor: Odeon Entertainment Ltd Blu-Ray release date: 13th June (UK) Directed by: Michael Reeves Starring: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Heath Review by: Stephanie Scaife I only just recently got myself an HD TV and Blu-Ray player (I know, I know… I’m way behind) so I’m still at […]