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MPAA Rating - NR

Length:
    94 Minutes

Genre:
    Crime

Original Release Date:
    Jul 24, 2001

Director
    John Gilling

Cast
    Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, Dermot Walsh, Renee Houston

 
Movie Summary
Mania is the venerable Burke and Hare story, previously cinematized by producer Val Lewton as The Body Snatcher. Peter Cushing plays a respectable 19th-century Edinburgh doctor who needs fresh cadavers in order to continue his crucial research. Since the exhuming of bodies for medical purposes is illegal, Lee must rely upon grave-robbers George Rose and Donald Pleasance for his corpse supply. What Lee doesnt know is that Rose and Pleasance frequently cut out the middleman by creating their own corpses. The good doctor catches on when the latest cadaver turns out to be his own fiancee. Its excessively violent climax has prevented Mania from being shown completely intact on commercial television. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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