The Flesh and the Fiends

The Flesh and the Fiends (released in the United States as Mania; also known as The Fiendish Ghouls and Psycho Killers) is a 1960 British horror film directed by John Gilling, from a screenplay co-written with Leon Griffiths, and starring Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence and George Rose. It is based on the true case of Burke and Hare, who murdered at least 16 people in 1828 Edinburgh and sold their bodies for anatomical research. The film was released in the United Kingdom by Regal Film Distributors on February 2, 1960.