IMDb rating 6.1/10. Director - John Landis. A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. Based on the true story about the famous murderers Burke And Hare follows the hapless exploits of these two men as they fall into the highly profitable business of providing cadavers for the medical fraternity in Nineteenth Century Edinburgh then the centre of medical learning. The one thing they were short of was bodies.   ... >>