Abstract
This chapter aims to identify certain attributes of cult performance as evidenced by Vincent Price, in a case study of Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General (1968). It proposes that the circumstances of this film particularly drew a
performance from Price which reveals a kind of vulnerability which is at odds with his role as the eponymous witchfinder, in this English Civil War revenge horror.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Cult film stardom: offbeat attractions and processes of cultification |
| Editors | K. Egan, S. Thomas |
| Place of Publication | Basingstoke |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 109-125 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780230293694 |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Nov 2012 |