Burke & Hare2010
“No Job Too Small. No Body Too Big. No Questions Asked.”
Directed by John Landis
🏆 1 nomination total
The premise
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Horror Vault's take
Set in the fog-drenched streets of 19th-century Edinburgh, this pitch-black comedy follows two down-on-their-luck schemers who stumble into a grisly but lucrative arrangement with a surgeon hungry for fresh specimens. What begins as ghoulish grave-robbing quickly escalates into something far more sinister as the duo's entrepreneurial instincts override their scruples. Director John Landis marshals a stellar British cast to wring dark laughs from true-crime history, balancing period grotesquerie with gleefully irreverent wit. Fans of macabre humour will find plenty to savour in this colourful retelling of one of history's most notorious murder partnerships.
Content: Dark Humour Surrounding Murder And Death, Depictions Of Corpses And Autopsy, Violence, Cruelty
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