Witchfinder General is a 1968 'Tigon British Film Productions' horror drama film. It features Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell, Patrick Wymark, Nicky Henson, Rupert Davies, and Wilfrid Brambell.
Civil-War England, 1647. Matthew Hopkins, lawyer and self-appointed 'Witchfinder General', tours the Eastern counties instigating witch-hunts and extracting 'confessions' under torture. When a young woman, Sara, is raped by Hopkins and his brutal assistant, John Stearne, and her priest father murdered, her lover, Richard, a soldier in Cromwell's Puritan army, vows revenge.