The Doctor And The Devils
Murder was just the beginning...
Based on Dylan Thomas' original screen play, this shocking horror-thriller stars Timothy Dalton as Thomas Rock, a brilliant young anatomy professor in 1820s Edinburgh. At first accepting only the cadavers provided him for study - those of a few hanged criminals a year - Rock eventually recruits two grave robbers (Jonathan Pryce and Stephen Rea) to secure a better supply of corpses. Coming to the gory conclusion that they will earn more the "fresher" the corpses, the two begin committing murder and delivering warm bodies to the doctor's lecture chambers. Also starring Julian Sands and Twiggy, The Doctor And The Devils brings classic chills from start to finish.
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Good fun, despite the macabre theme - mbg-
The abstract point of this movie is quite straightforward: as an end-user of a product, do you care where your product comes from, and who is affected along the way?
Timothy Dalton is good as the iconoclast doctor that doesn't really hide what he is doing, but hides his acknowledgement of where the bodies are coming from. The two body suppliers are pretty interesting, though seedy and obviously insane or psychopathic, characters. If they had been boring characters, it would have been a much lesser movie.
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Good fun, despite the macabre theme - mbg-
The abstract point of this movie is quite straightforward: as an end-user of a product, do you care where your product comes from, and who is affected along the way?
Timothy Dalton is good as the iconoclast doctor that doesn't really hide what he is ...