THE BODY SNATCHER Reviews

The legendary Boris Karloff stars in 1945's THE BODY SNATCHER, from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, directed by Robert Wise for producer Val Lewton and RKO studios. Based on the real life exploits of the infamous Burke and Hare, who, during the 1850s, provided cadavers to the medical schools of Edinburgh, Scotland, by robbing the graves of the recently deceased. When the Edinburgh police staked out the cemeteries to put a stop their graverobbing ways, Burke and Hare saved themselves the time and trouble of digging up corpses by making their own, eventually murdering 16 people to supply the...