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Burke and Hare (2010)

  • Director: John Landis

  • Producers: Barnaby Thompson, James Spring, Tim Smith, James Atherton, Paul Brett, Jan Pace

  • Writers: Piers Ashworth & Nick Moorcroft

  • Cast: Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson, Christopher Lee, Jenny Agutter, Tim Curry & Bill Bailey

  • Synopsis: Set in the early 19th century, Burke and Hare is a black-comedy horror based on the real-life exploits of Irish murderers William Burke and William Hare. After discovering a lucrative gap in the market providing Edinburgh's world-renowned medical school with fresh cadavers for its research, the pair find themselves procuring the bodies using rather unconventional methods to say the least.