(aka Conqueror Worm) At the conclusion of this Vincent Price horror classic, Sara (Hilary Dwyer) is tied down to a stone table as Matthew Hopkins (Price) prepares to brand a cross on her back. Price really sells the torture to her beforehand, telling the sobbing girl what he’s going to do to her, saying if she faints or cries out that we can only assume that Satan has intervened to spare her the agony. Then he orders her husband, whose chained to the ceiling, to be brought over so he can watch her suffer. But it all goes awry as he escapes and soldiers arrive to kill Hopkins before the deed can be done. Pity. A great movie anyway.
