The Body Snatcher (Blu-ray)
GRAVES RAIDED! COFFINS ROBBED! CORPSES CARVED! MIDNIGHT MURDER! BODY BLACKMAIL! STALKING GHOULS! Mad Thrills of Terror And Macabre Mystery... –and don't blame us if you stay awake all night!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 17 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 26, 2019
- Originally Released: 1945
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi | |
Performer: | Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade & Sharyn Moffett | |
Directed by | Robert Wise | |
Screenwriting by | Philip MacDonald & Val Lewton | |
Original story by | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Composition by | Roy Webb | |
Art Direction by | Albert S. D'Agostino & Walter E. Keller | |
Produced by | Val Lewton | |
Director of Photography: | Robert De Grasse |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Karloff's nothing short of commanding in an unexpectedly complex role.
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Film Frenzy
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The first and best of the three Val Lewton-Boris Karloff collaborations for RKO.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/4 --
This is the most elegant and leisurely of the Val Lewton horror films, up until the whopper of an ending.
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Combustible Celluloid
3 stars out of 5 -- [With] a pleasingly sick sense of humour....It plays out like a gothic precursor to CAPE FEAR.
Total Film
Rating: 3.5/4 --
there's a fascination with the ultimate futility of ever being something beyond opportunistic and solipsistic.
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Film Freak Central
The film accelerates to great effect towards the end.
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Time Out
Rating: 8/10 --
A strong, well above-average effort in almost every way, there's no evidence at all that Lewton's first brush with money and success dulled his instincts.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Product Description:
In THE BODY SNATCHER, Robert Wise's creepy, intricate horror film, a 19th-century Edinburgh doctor and medical school professor, Dr. MacFarlane (Henry Daniell), has been relying upon unappeasable grave robber John Grey (Boris Karloff) to provide him with corpses for his experiments. His young assistant, Donald Fettes (Russell Wade), is shocked when he learns how they come to be in possession of their cadavers, but his admiration for MacFarlane leads him to keep the doctor's illegal dealings a secret. However, when their supply of fresh cadavers begins to dwindle, Grey taunts the doctor with a secret even greater than their body snatching. Meanwhile, Fettes must keep up his hardworking, moral front for Mrs. Marsh (Rita Corday), whose crippled little girl, Georgina (Sharyn Moffett), he's treating. Based on the famous Robert Louis Stevenson story, THE BODY SNATCHER incorporates a subplot based on the actual account of 19th-century Edinbugh murderers Burke and Hare. This chilling, atmospheric film features what is arguably one of Karloff's greatest performances as the menacing, murderous Grey. It also features a fantastic scene between Karloff and the legendary Bela Lugosi (as MacFarlane's servant Joseph), the only one the two ever filmed together.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 44,084
- UPC: 826663189285
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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