Witchfinder General - Tigon Collection 1993 Director’s Commentary

Director’s Commentary

To fight against the evil emperor’s reign of terror outlaw rebel Ma Teng joins a group of female freedom fighters

they set up camp in a musty old house

and alternate footage [13 mins]

Witchfinder General - Tigon Collection 1993 Director’s CommentaryWith the English Civil War raging, Witchfinder Matthew Hopkins uses the fear and confusion caused by the conflict to enact his forms of cruelty and extortion on a small rural community. He and his sadistic assistant John Stearne exploit the uneducated villagers for cash and gold, laying waste to transgressors with their reign of torture and execution. But one man, a young soldier arrives to go after the pair in a fit of bloody revenge. Simply one of