Burke & Hare Blu-ray
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Posted February 14, 2025 07:49 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber are preparing a Blu-ray release of Vernon Sewell's Burke & Hare (1972), starring Derren Nesbitt, Harry Andrews, Glynn Edwards, Yootha Joyce, and Françoise Pascal. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on April 1.
Description: Two of the most notorious figures in the history of medicine, William Burke and William Hare were a pair of enterprising street thugs who provided anatomical specimens to the Edinburgh Medical College—often by robbing the graves of the recently dead, sometimes through even more nefarious methods. Derren Nesbitt and Glynn Edwards bring these two scoundrels to life in Burke & Hare, a colorful, early-'70s rendition of life in the taverns, brothels and surgical theatres of 1820s Scotland. While other filmmakers have treated the Burke and Hare murders as a source of Gothic horror, director Vernon Sewell (The Blood Beast Terror) offers a playful spin on the Irish body snatchers, blending dark comedy with bawdy eroticism, seasoning it with the grotesque, then crowning it with a playful theme song by the pop band The Scaffold.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: Two of the most notorious figures in the history of medicine, William Burke and William Hare were a pair of enterprising street thugs who provided anatomical specimens to the Edinburgh Medical College—often by robbing the graves of the recently dead, sometimes through even more nefarious methods. Derren Nesbitt and Glynn Edwards bring these two scoundrels to life in Burke & Hare, a colorful, early-'70s rendition of life in the taverns, brothels and surgical theatres of 1820s Scotland. While other filmmakers have treated the Burke and Hare murders as a source of Gothic horror, director Vernon Sewell (The Blood Beast Terror) offers a playful spin on the Irish body snatchers, blending dark comedy with bawdy eroticism, seasoning it with the grotesque, then crowning it with a playful theme song by the pop band The Scaffold.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historian/ Screenwriter Gary Gerani
- Grave Desires: Corpses on Film – Interview with Dr. Patricia MacCormack
- Interview with Actress Françoise Pascal
- Theatrical Trailer
- Optional English Subtitles
