Euroshock Collection Double Feature: The Flesh And The Fiends, The (Special Edition)

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Edinburgh, 1827. Irish immigrants Burke (George Rose) and Hare (Donald Pleasance) hit upon the idea of selling the bodies of the recently deceased to eminent surgeon Dr. Robert Knox (Peter Cushing). Dr. Knox, knowing that experimental vivisection is the only way for medicine to make progress, forms an uneasy alliance with the self-styled body snatchers. When Burke and Hare's supply of available corpses beginning to run out they decide to speed up the process along by murdering the poor and the homeless. Men and women, old and young, everyone becomes a target for the deadly duo, but even as the body count rises, Knox turns a blind eye to their methods in order to further his research. But after one of his own medical students is murdered, Knox finds it difficult to remain impassive. With the public out for the killers' blood and the Medical Council out to disgrace him, Dr. Knox must use all of his skill and intelligence to preserve the dignity of his profession and to justify his controversial actions in the face of near-universal condemnation.

Liner notes by genre writer Jonathan Sothcott; This special Double Feature DVD presents the original U.K. cut of "The Flesh And The Fiends" in a brand-new widescreen transfer made directly from the film's camera negative. Also included is a widescreen edition of the fabled "Continental version" of the film with added scenes of nudity and violence shot for the more permissive European market, Featurette, Filmography, Photo Gallery, Production Notes, Trailers, NTSC.