{"id":953,"date":"2012-01-15T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2023-08-02T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:40:27","slug":"flesh-and-the-fiends-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/flesh-and-the-fiends-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"Flesh and the Fiends 1960 REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/The-Flesh-and-the-Fiends.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/The-Flesh-and-the-Fiends.jpg\" alt=\"The-Flesh-and-the-Fiends\" title=\"The-Flesh-and-the-Fiends\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#b0d9b4\"><strong>TITLE:<\/strong> Flesh and the Fiends<br><strong>ALTERNATIVE TITLE:<\/strong> Mania<br><strong>YEAR RELEASED:<\/strong> 1960<br><strong>DIRECTOR:<\/strong> John Gilling<br><strong>CAST:<\/strong> Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, George Rose, Melvyn Hayes, Billie Whitelaw<br><strong>PLOT:<\/strong> Based on true-life tale of Edinburgh surgeon Robert Knox, who required cadavers to study in medical experiments and teaching. Graverobbers William Burke and William Hare supply him with bodies from the cemetery, until they discover &#8220;creating&#8221; fresh specimens is easier than digging them up.<\/p><div class=\"743a4455cdbfb6fabf8f43032d073f9c\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1914006253361805\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\r\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1914006253361805\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2456133443\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MORAL OF THE STORY:<\/strong> When committing crime, it is best not to cut corners &#8211; if a crime&#8217;s worth doing, it worth doing properly<br><strong>FUN FACT:<\/strong> The real-life Burke and Hare supplied Dr Knox with about a dozen &#8220;fresh&#8221; corpses in Edinburgh about 1827<br><strong>140-WORD MINI REVIEW:<\/strong> Historical horror impresses with memorable cast and atmospheric and restrained re-telling of the infamous Burke and Hare story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch The Flesh and the Fiends 1960 Trailer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ueLb2JNIfA4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Flesh and the Fiends trailer 1960\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueLb2JNIfA4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tell us your thoughts about Flesh and The Fiends 1960 in the comments section.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historical horror Flesh and the Fiends 1960 impresses with memorable cast and atmospheric and restrained re-telling of the infamous Burke and Hare story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":34181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6293],"tags":[138,139,140,15370,141,126,24403,16671,121,15365,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-film-reviews","8":"tag-bodysnatching","9":"tag-burke-and-hare","10":"tag-donald-pleasence","11":"tag-donald-pleasence-films","12":"tag-edinburgh","13":"tag-john-gilling","14":"tag-john-gilling-films","15":"tag-mini-review","16":"tag-peter-cushing","17":"tag-peter-cushing-films","18":"tag-scotland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spookyisles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}