When “British”, “Horror” and “1960's” pop into most people’s heads, the next word is usually “Hammer”,
but there were a few others plying their trade at that time. Companies
such as London-based Tigon Films churned out a wide range of cheap and
cheerful material from horror to soft-core porn to art house drama.
Although most of Tigon's output has now sunk into obscurity, they did
come up with one bona-fide classic – Witchfinder General.
Despite a modest budget of less than £100,000, and a 24-year-old
director with only two previous films to his name, it is a well-made,
well-acted, very British work of surprising depth and uncompromising
brutality, but with some unexpected links to a very American genre of
film.
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