Landis graverobs Burke and Hare!

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 18 years ago

Last Updated on July 27, 2021

John Landis is returning to the realm of horror-comedy with BURKE AND HARE for London’s legendary Ealing Studios (who are now producing DORIAN GRAY). The screenplay was written by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft.

BURKE AND HARE will tell the true story of William Burke and William Hare, serial killers who sold the corpses of their 17 victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. Sounds hilarious! (It can be argued that the upcoming I SELL THE DEAD was somewhat inpired by this sordid tale.)

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