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Brutal Violence | Based On Novel Or Book
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Best Rediscoveries | 2015
Best DVD Collection For and | 2008
Best DVD Classic Film Release | 2008
Best DVD Collection | 2008
Budget 83,000 USD
Box Office Collection 1,500,000 USD
The real Matthew Hopkins was only in his mid 20s in 1645 and died before he was 30. Vincent Price's character is well into middle age, like the actor himself. Hopkins and Stearne executed more than 300 people, mainly women, during their two or three years of '"witch hunting". Considering that 500 people in total were executed for witchcraft in England between the late 15th and late 18th centuries, it means that Hopkins was responsible for two-thirds of these executions during a period of three years.
Vincent Price regarded his performance here as the finest of his horror movie career.
On the first day of filming, Vincent Price fell from his horse. Director Michael Reeves refused to see him, hoping that angering Price would help the actor make his character more fierce.
Director Michael Reeves wanted Donald Pleasence to play Matthew Hopkins, but "American-International Pictures," the American distributor and co-financier of the film, insisted that Vincent Price play the title character, and Reeves grudgingly accepted.
Paul Ferris, who wrote the film's dramatic music score, also acted in the movie under the pseudonym Morris Jar as an homage to film composer Maurice Jarre.
"Matthew Hopkins: Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do."
"[a tied-up woman Hopkins has thrown into the moat to test for witchcraft drowns] Matthew Hopkins: She was innocent."
