Roundup of Down Under Reviews

It's taken a while, but Burke and Hare has made it to the southern hemisphere. Now if only it would make its way west!

Here's a roundup of reviews and interviews they inspired:



 by SBS on 5/20/11
By Landis' count, the Burke and Hare story had been chronicled in at least 14 ...When Burke and Hare opened in the UK in October 2010, it was branded “an ...

by The West Australian on 5/20/11
But you would expect the 60-year-old writer-director to turn the tale of notorious British serial killers Burke and Hare - who killed just to sell the ...

by NEWS.com.au on 5/20/11
Simon Pegg and Isla Fisher in a scene from film Burke and Hare. Picuture: Supplied Source: Supplied HOLD your nose and take a hike elsewhere, because this ...

 by Sydney Morning Herald on 5/20/11
Rarely is the term ''gallows humour'' taken as literally as it is in Burke and Hare. The joke swings on the exploits of the notorious pair of criminals who ...
Sydney Morning Herald

by The Australian on 5/20/11
I HAD always assumed that Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, was inspired by the notorious Burke and Hare case; Shelley wrote about a scientist who creates ...

by The West Australian on 5/20/11
So I'm not sure what Hollywood director John Landis was thinking when he signed up for this bawdy British comedy about serial killers Burke and Hare, who were so poor they turned to murder just to sell the cadavers to science in 19th century Edinburgh. ...
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The West Australian

 by Blaze on 5/20/11
Concerning the comic plight of grave-robbers Burke and Hare, this largely agreeable, if rather slight entertainment, is a true story – as the credits advise. Apart from the parts that are not. When the King announces a competition to further science, ...
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Blaze

by Sydney Morning Herald on 5/20/11
What a way to earn a living: Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis in Burke & Hare. After a decade-long movie lull, veteran comedy director John Landis (Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places) returns with this pitch-black, factually based tale about two...
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by Northside on 5/20/11
British funnymen Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis star in "Burke and Hare", the story of two conmen who turn to grave robbing as a means of making a living. Ever walked into a crowd sharing an inside joke and not known why they're laughing? ...
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Northside