Burke and Hare

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John Landis you need to make more films. This one is populated with the most awesome BBC and comedic actors in every part and has his usual cartoonish comedic direction. Just look at that cast list! There was another similar themed film that I saw a year or so ago called I Sell the Dead but I like this one more.

The film revels in playing up the Scottishness of everything. It looks and sounds great, so much unnecessary bagpipes. Apparently this is a rather liberally adapted true story, there are real life characters you might recognise in it and it's a story that seems legitimate only probably not as comedic in real life. Funny stuff.

It's rather idiosyncratic to see a period piece done in that slightly cartoonish style John Landis does so well. I really like it though, seek this one out.