The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)

Directed by

John Gilling

Genre

horror film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This horror film is based on the true story of Burke and Hare in 1820s Edinburgh. They murder people and sell the corpses to a surgeon for money.

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What happens

The Flesh and the Fiends (released in the United States as Mania; also known as The Fiendish Ghouls and Psycho Killers) is a 1960 British horror film directed by John Gilling, from a screenplay co-written with Leon Griffiths, and starring Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence and George Rose. It is based on the true case of Burke and Hare, who murdered at least 16 people in 1828 Edinburgh and sold their bodies for anatomical research. The film was released in the United Kingdom by Regal Film Distributors on February 2, 1960. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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