

Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Acting
Pegg and Serkis's gleeful chemistry sells every corpse.
Direction
Landis's return—An American Werewolf energy with worse hygiene.

Director
John Landis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Landis hadn't directed a theatrical feature since 1998's Susan's Plan; this was his comeback. He cast Pegg after seeing Shaun of the Dead.
The real Burke and Hare murdered 16 people in 1828; Edinburgh's 'Burke' became slang for suffocation, and 'burking' entered criminal vocabulary.