在这部医生与魔鬼剧情/恐怖片中,十九世纪，著名教授解剖学博士托马斯·岩在当地大学给学生们教授新医学。但没人知道的是，托马斯·岩所用的解剖尸体竟然是通过他的助手莫里博士从盗墓者手中买到的。当这一事情被酒鬼Robert Fallon和 Timothy Broom偷听到之后，他们决定通过杀死当地的贫困居民供应新鲜的尸体，以卖给莫里博士好赚点钱。事有碰巧，当莫里博士发现自己一直暗恋的身份卑微的伦敦妓女珍妮贝利也成为Robert Fallon和 Timothy Broom的下一个目标时。他能够及时赶到并拯救自己心爱的女人吗？
In the Nineteenth Century, the renowned professor of anatomy Dr. Thomas Rock gives classes to neophyte medicine students in the local university. Dr. Rock uses his assistant Dr. Murray to buy corpses for his experiments from body snatchers paying a little fortune for the cadavers. When the alcoholic scum Robert Fallon and Timothy Broom overhear the conversation of grave-robbers about Dr. Rock, they decide to supply fresher corpses that worth more to the doctor, killing the poor inhabitants. Dr. Murray has unrequited feelings for the cockney whore Jennie Bailey that usually hangs around with the also prostitute Alice. When Dr. Murray discovers that Fallon has just sold the corpse of Alice, he seeks out the worthless Fallon and Broom to stop them from murdering Jennie. Will he arrive in time o save Jennie?
