The read
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do. Most of the 4,379 2010s comedy movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes33%
Metacritic46/100
Audiences rate it 15 points higher than critics do.
529 audience votes
Key crew
- Piers AshworthWriter
- Nick MoorcroftWriter
- John LandisDirector
- Joby TalbotOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Simon PeggWilliam Burke
- Andy SerkisWilliam Hare
- Isla FisherGinny
- Georgia KingEmma
- Tom WilkinsonDr. Knox
- Tim CurryDr. Monroe
- Christopher LeeOld Joseph
- Jessica HynesLucky
- Bill BaileyAngus
- Stephen MerchantFootman
- Hugh BonnevilleLord Harrington
- David SchofieldFergus
Stills
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Themes
heart attackblack humorautopsymurdercrueltyanti villaingrave digger