Original title: Burke & Hare
Year: 1972
Country: UK
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 738329269364
Image: 1.66:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: English
Subtitles: English SDH
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Horror
Cast: Derren Nesbitt, Glynn Edwards, Harry Andrews, Yootha Joyce
Director: Vernon Sewell
Synopsis:
Two of the most notorious figures in the history of medicine, William Burke and William Hare were a pair of enterprising street thugs who provided anatomical specimens to the Edinburgh Medical College—often by stealing the graves of the recently dead, sometimes through even more nefarious methods. Derren Nesbitt and Glynn Edwards bring these two scoundrels to life in Burke & Hare, a colorful, early-'70s rendition of life in the taverns, brothels and surgical theaters of 1820s Scotland. While other filmmakers have treated the Burke and Hare murders as a source of Gothic horror, director Vernon Sewell (The Blood Beast Terror) offers a playful spin on the Irish body snatchers, blending dark comedy with bawdy eroticism, seasoning it with the grotesque, then crowning it with a playful theme song by the pop band The Scaffold.
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