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The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
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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.
Released: 1956-06-15
Duration: 01:22:00
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Keywords: Psychotronic Film, Begins With Voice Over Narration, Nind Andhera, ...
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams, John C. Higgins
Cast: Akim Tamiroff, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, ...
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Writer: Gerald Drayson Adams John C. Higgins
Cast: Akim Tamiroff John Carradine Basil Rathbone Bela Lugosi Lon Chaney Jr. Claire Carleton George Sawaya Tor Johnson Patricia Blair Aubrey Schenck Herbert Rudley Phyllis Stanley Sally Yarnell Peter Gordon Clive Morgan Louanna Gardner John Sheffield
Genre: Horror Sci-Fi
Keywords: Psychotronic Film Begins With Voice Over Narration Nind Andhera Begins With Historical Notes Year 1872 Prison Visit Innocent Sentenced To Death Three Ring Syringe Coffin Arm Tattoo Rescued From Execution Antidote Scream Off Camera Taking Someone's Temperature Wife In A Coma Diagram Of Human Brain Rollaway Bed Hidden Passage Sherry Drugged Disfigured Face Bound In Chains Torch Surgery Scar Castle Man Wears A Top Hat Knock At The Door 1800s 1870s Color In Title Kidnapper Three Word Title Kidnapping Brain Brain Tumor Anesthesia Abbey Mad Scientist England Brain Surgery Partial Paralysis Paralysis Newgate Prison India Brain Experiment Human Experimentation Insanity Constable Scotland Yard Sliding Panel Mute Disfigurement Human Monster Secret Cellar Person On Fire Coma Victim Gypsy Involuntary Experiment Subject Pupilless Eyes Title Spoken By Character
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...

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