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The Body Snatcher
Horror, Thriller
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy gothic horror built on moral compromise, grim atmosphere, and mounting psychological guilt rather than graphic spectacle.
- Tone
- dread, bleak, eerie
- Payoff
- unease, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- medical ethics, class exploitation, guilt, revenge, corruption
- Setting
- nineteenth-century industrial era, fogbound urban medical underworld
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