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
Simon Pegg
William Burke
Andy Serkis
William Hare
Isla Fisher
Ginny
Georgia King
Emma
Tom Wilkinson
Dr. Knox
Tim Curry
Dr. Monroe
Christopher Lee
Old Joseph
Jessica Hynes
Lucky
Bill Bailey
Angus
Stephen Merchant
Footman
Hugh Bonneville
Lord Harrington
David Schofield
Fergus
Allan Corduner
Nicephore
Pollyanna McIntosh
Mary
Ronnie Corbett
Captain Tam McLintoch
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.
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