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  1. Burke & Hare is a 2010 British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders of 1828. Directed by John Landis from an original screenplay by Nick Moorcroft and Piers Ashworth, the film stars Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as William Burke and William Hare respectively. It was Landis's first feature film release in 12 years, the ...

  2. Burke and Hare: Directed by John Landis. With Bill Bailey, Tom Wilkinson, Michael Smiley, Tim Curry. A black comedy about two 19th-century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school.

    • John Landis
    • 2 min
  3. Burke & Hare is a 2010 British Black Comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tom Wilkinson and Tim Curry, based on the infamous William Burke and William Hare and their killing spree in 1820s Scotland. Burke and Hare are two ne'er-do-wells who hit upon a novel new source of income: providing ...

  4. Feb 12, 2024 · William Burke and William Hare were two real-life serial killers who terrorized the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1828 with at least 16 murders. Contrary to what you might expect, these men ...

    • John Landis
    • Horror Feature Writer
    • Bill Bailey
  5. Appearing as the bad guys were Simon Pegg (as Burke) and Andy Serkis (as Hare), except according to this they may have killed sixteen people for profit, but actually they weren't all that bad. Indeed, here they were shown to be loveable rogues, two Irish scallywags just trying their best to get by in the harsh surroundings of nineteenth century Edinburgh, and far from the coldblooded ...

  6. Sep 9, 2011 · Burke and Hare. Directed by John Landis. Comedy, Thriller. R. 1h 31m. By Neil Genzlinger. Sept. 8, 2011. When an American director uses a bunch of well-known English actors to tell a Scottish tale ...

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  8. The Burke and Hare murders were a series of sixteen murders committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures. Edinburgh was a leading European centre of anatomical study in the early 19th ...

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