
The Body Snatcher
1945, Horror, 1h 19m
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Cabman John Gray
Joseph
Dr. Wolfe `'Toddy'` MacFarlane
Meg Cameron
Donald Fettes
Mrs. Marsh
Critic Reviews for The Body Snatcher
All Critics (20) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (3)
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Settings are inexpensive but sufficient for the needs. Production values, in general, however, aid materially in making this picture a winner.
November 14, 2007 | Full Review… -
The film accelerates to great effect towards the end.
June 24, 2006 | Full Review… -
Even though this film is taken from a modest stage play of a few seasons back, its humors are as stale and mechanical as those of the oldest such farce.
March 25, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
One of the lesser products of Val Lewton's years as the head of RKO's horror-film unit.
January 1, 2000 | Full Review… -
...a good example of a kind of horror style that we've lost the knack of; intelligent, thoughtful, thrilling and yet subtle in its intention...
February 20, 2021 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
Essentially turns the tale of famous Scotland serial killers Burke and Hare into a fictional recounting with altered protagonists, allies, cover-ups, and other elaborations.
August 5, 2020 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Body Snatcher
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Apr 13, 2011A pretty interesting little flick that ends extremely well. Odd seeing Bela Lugosi in such a tiny role, but also it's nice to see Boris Karloff being so evil and relishing it.Tim S Super Reviewer
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Oct 17, 2010I didn't not like it, but I probably wouldn't watch it again.Sarah P Super Reviewer
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Sep 05, 2010My favourite corpse snatching movie, it stars both Karloff and Lugosi, how could you not like it? It's exciting and creepy.Aj V Super Reviewer
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Nov 01, 2009Sinister goings on in 19th century Edinburrow as a young medical student, presumably on exchange from America, is initiated into the art of grave robbing. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson and directed by Robert Wise, <i>The Body Snatcher</i> is not actually one of the better Val Lewton horror movies. The atmosphere is potent enough but the story doesn't really catch fire until the very end and, for such a short film, it tends to drag. Henry Daniell and Boris Karloff, as an anatomist and his resurrectionist respectively, are terrific; Bela Lugosi, on the other hand, is such a waste of space I'd forgotten he was even in the picture.Stephen M Super Reviewer
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