Since our last post had that deadly duo Burke and Hare in it, well, here's another ghastly tale based on those two creeps... So, the renowned professor of anatomy, Dr. Thomas Rock, teaches classes to medical students at the university. He uses his assistant, Dr. Murray, to buy corpses for his experiments from two local body snatchers, Robert Fallon and Timothy Broom. When the grave robbers are told to bring in fresh corpses only, and that they would receive double the amount of money for those bodies, they go on a killing spree. But, when Dr. Murray discovers that Fallon has just sold the corpse of the prostitute Alice to the university, he seeks out Fallon and Broom to stop them from then murdering Alice's friend, Jennie.
This one stars Timothy Dalton as Dr. Rock, Julian Sands as Dr. Murray, Jonathan Pryce as Robert Fallon, Stephen Rea as Timothy Broom and Twiggy as Jennie Bailey.
Holy freaking Cow! All of these people are still working!! Way to go guys, Twiggy currently has a show on Brit TV called TEA WITH TWIGGY!
Here's Dr. Rock giving a lecture at the university to students new to medicine... Yes, he shows them a cadaver, but one that's stinky and not very fresh.
So, Dr. Murray is receiving another corpse from Fallon and Broom. It is in bad shape and he tells the two that they will have to bring them corpses much fresher! If not, the university will not accept them!!..
Got it?!!
Dr. Murray is the real hero in this story, you'll see why.
So, they want fresh corpses do they, well okay, sure, why not?! Fallon hatches a scheme and gets Broom in on it, they'll simply put this sick guy, who's renting a room where they stay, out of his misery by suffocating him!
Dr. Murray arrives after the corpse was left with an assistant. Wait a minute, something just doesn't seem quite right... He goes to see Dr. Rock (nice room!) to tell him that he thinks Fallon and Broom are murdering victims before bringing them to the university! But, we need fresh cadavers, don't we! Quite a conundrum...
The two killers are stone cold alcoholics, it's almost like a fun game they're playing, And they're getting rich to boot!
Fallon and Broom like to frequent a bar where Jennie and her prostitute friend Alice hang out. But when Broom hears all about Fallon's plan the kill both girls for the money, he says that's it, he's had enough of Fallons glee in killing, and leaves...
So, Fallon kills Alice and takes her to the university, he's tells the assistant that he'll be right back with another body... Dr. Murray shows up to find the body of Alice, and it's still warm!
Fallon has lured Jennie into a secluded area and tries to use psychology on her, saying that if he killed her, she would never have to suffer the pains of life ever again, what a glorious thing!.. In the meantime, Dr. Murray locates the killer and puts the hurt on him!!
Broom turns states evidence against Fallon and the mastermind behind the murders meets his maker, and cries like a little baby, what else?! When he was sitting in his cell before the hanging, his council tells him, how ironic, you're going to end up at the university as a cadaver for the students to study!..
Wow, Broom gets off scot-free, and watches the execution from a barred window. He's also there as Fallon's coffin is being taken away, it's a good day in the neighborhood.
Dr. Rock escapes prosecution and wanders off into the sunset. He knows he was wrong to take those bodies... Tune in again Wednesday when we magically appear out of the helium, later...
