Burke & Hare

[yoco]

Release Date: TBA
Studio: Not Available
Director: John Landis
Screenwriter: Piers Ashworth, Nick Moorcroft
Starring: Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson, Isla Fisher, Tim Curry, Jessica Hynes, Ronnie Corbett, Reece Shearsmith, David Schofield, Allan Corduner, Bill Bailey, Hugh Bonneville, Michael Smiley, Christopher Lee
Genre: Comedy, Horror

"Burke & Hare" is a black comedy based on the true story of the body-snatchers William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis), directed by Hollywood legend, John Landis. These two Irish entrepreneurs discover that a dead body can fetch a hefty price when the demands of the leading medical professors Dr. Knox (Tom Wilkinson) and Dr. Monroe (Tim Curry) reach beyond that of the local supply.

[slikrapid]

hammer and sickle (communism) - no mate, we call it the business, indeed, still flourishing nowadays
entrepreneurs = scavengers
leading medical professors = necrophiliacs
corpses = profiteering resource
irish = thorn in imperialistic british eyes
people = morally depraved rabble/animals

based on the true story of the body-snatchers? yeah, right, as if back then there wasn't enough bodies (or as if the royal medical profession had any trouble acquiring them) to dissect & experiment with that they had to scoop them off the streets or kill a few and nobody noticed anything suspicious, one wonders how they even noticed jack the ripper

otherwise, could be a decent black comedy though with little historic relevance