Recently I had the chance to interview John Landis after his North American premiere of Burke And Hare which screened at the Fantasia Film Festival. During the interivew (part of which you can hear on episode 284 of the Sound On Sight podcast), I mentioned to Mr. Landis that although he was looked upon as …
Visit the official Fantasia Film Fest website Well we are officially through the second week of the Fantasia Film Festival, so I figured we should do a quick look back at all the reviews we have posted in the past seven days. In seven days our crew has managed to post over another eleven …
Burke and Hare Written by Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft Directed by John Landis UK, 2010 There have been several films about the infamous true-life grave robbers William Burke and William Hare, including Freddie Francis’s 1985 The Doctor And The Devils and John Gilling’s 1959 The Flesh and The Fiends. Perhaps the most famous is …
There are a lot of reasons to see Burke and Hare. The most obvious: This British black comedy film, loosely based on the Burke and Hare murders, is directed by John Landis, the acclaimed director of American Werewolf In London. Strangely most people think of Landis as a horror director, but he’s really a director …
The legendary comedy director, best known for Animal House and The Blues Brothers, as well as for Michael Jackson’s Thriller, is finally returning to the big screen for a new black comedy about a pair of real-life murderous entrepreneurs called “Burke and Hare.” It’s been more than a decade since John Landis made his last …