Witchfinder General

I really don’t have much to say on this movie. It’s an awkward movie, with an unbalanced narrative that uses a looooooooong runway, and delivers a short, unsatisfactory climax at the end of a third act that drags. The acting is fine, and Vincent Price is remarkably subdued, and quite loathsome, as the titular character. The movie is, for the time, rather violent, reveling in the torture of the accused. It’s interesting to see, but that’s balanced against the nighttime outdoor scenes which are so poorly lit, you’ll wonder if the cinematographer left the lens cap on. It’s never bad, it’s just never great. It’s just average. Hooptober 2021 movie #20/24