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  1. The Flesh and the Fiends (US title Mania; also known as The Fielndish Ghouls and Psycho Killers) is a 1960 British horror film directed by John Gilling and starring Peter Cushing, June Laverick and Donald Pleasence.

  2. Arts. Culture magazines. The Flesh and the Fiends. views 3,922,937 updated. The Flesh and the Fiends ★★½ Mania; Fiendish Ghouls; Psycho Killers 1960. Fine adaptation of the Burke and Hare grave robbing legend. Cushing is the doctor who needs corpses and Pleasence and Rose provide them by any means.

  3. The Flesh and the Fiends: Directed by John Gilling. With Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, George Rose. In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.

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    • Crime, Drama, Thriller
    • John Gilling
    • 1960-11-04
  4. The flesh and the fiends. Summary/Review: "Edinburgh, 1827. Irish immigrants Burke and Hare hit upon the idea of selling the bodies of the recently deceased to eminent surgeon Dr. Robert Knox. Dr. Knox, knowing that experimental vivisection is the only way for medicine to make progress, forms an uneasy alliance with the self-styled body ...

  5. The Flesh and the Fiends was Berman and Baker's most ambitious and, arguably, finest film. Not only does it give a generally authentic account of Burke and Hare's activities, it also makes a highly effective horror film, one that is as creepy and unsettling as any other British chiller of this time.

    • John Gilling
  6. The Flesh And The Fiends (1959) “As a child I believed in God and the devil, it took a child to show me what I am now. I have failed. Yes, I have failed".” The Flesh and The Fiends sets out its stall immediately, with two "resurrectionists" at work, stealing a nastily stiff body from a grave.

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  8. Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing) is an Edinburgh-based doctor of anatomy whose ideas about research on deceased human bodies are in direct conflict with a law that limits the study of cadavers to...

    • Horror, Crime, Drama, Romance
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