Witchfinder General
1968

Set in 1648, under Oliver Cromwell, the film tells the tale of Matthew Hopkins a sadistic and psycopathic witch hunter.

Matthew Hopkins travels the countryside with his ruthless sidekick, John Stearne, and uses his power as a witchfinder to accrue wealth and gain sexual favours. He seeks women and forcibly extracts confessions of witchcraft from them, executes them, and then is rewarded with money from grateful townspeople in ridding them of demonic forces.

When Hopkins crosses paths with John Lowes, the priest of a small town, he tortures him for being a warlock. Sarah, John Lowe's neice, offers herself to Hopkins and Stearne in exchange for her uncle's life, but instead Stearne rapes her and then kills her uncle.

Richard Marshall, Sarah's fiance and a soldier in Cromwell's army, hears of this and swears bloody vengeance on Hopkins.