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The Black Sleep

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

Jun. 15, 1956

01:22:00

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Overview:

Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor.

Director: Reginald Le Borg

Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams, John C. Higgins

Cast: Akim Tamiroff, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, ...

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

Keywords: Psychotronic Film, Begins With Voice Over Narration, Nind Andhera, ...

Description

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...

Director: Reginald Le Borg