“The Resurrection Man” is a British horror film that came out in 1998 and was directed by J.D.L.Johnson. This film is partially based on William Burke’s biography, who was a grave robber and a serial killer in the Victorian Era in Edinburgh – Scotland, where he profited by supplying corpses to the medical institutions. The fusion of these genres focuses on horror in relation to crime, and deals with morality, death, and something bizarre.
Plot Summary
The plot of the movie centers around a profession of Burke who, with his accomplice, unearths coffins that bear corpses that they sell after dissection. Burke’s reasons of fascination further go to the human body and death resulting to him lost in a mix of brutality and corruption. The story complements the man with his deeds of breaching the law along with his going over to the darker side of the mind which leads to unnatural occurrences that test the limits of death and life.
Themes
Morality and Ethics: The film looks on how the act of body snatching can be celebrated in terms of ethics and the treatment of human beings.
Death and Decay: An important attribute clearly brought out in the film is the Mystery emerges around death and is embodied in the characters’ relations with rotting corpses and medicine.
Obsession: Carrying out the evil acts discussed above can on the other hand be said to be Burke’s preoccupation with death and the human body, since it pushes the narrative further by probing the mind of.
Reception
The Resurrection Man has a number of reviews, with some of them welcoming the black humor and originality that works been well in the genre of horror, but too many have complained about its pacing and execution. It has gained some love in the sector of horror and crime fiction.
