Review – The Conqueror Worm

I believe this was originally released in England under the title The Witch-Finder General, a considerably more apt identification. The only thing this movie has in common with Edgar Allen Poe is the appearance of Vincent Price (who of course also starred in other movies that actually were based on Poe’s writing). Price plays a witch-finder in Cromwellian England, a man who strays from village to village torturing people and stealing their property in the name of God’s justice. But after he murders the uncle of the fiancé of a soldier (raping the fiancé in the process), the aggression escalates. For the time, this is unusually packed with sex and violence. Otherwise, however, it’s an unremarkable bit of low-budget costume drama. See if desperate