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The Black Sleep (1956)

The Black Sleep (1956)

Science Fiction Horror

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

Release Date: 1956, June 15
Directors: Reginald Le Borg
Countries: United States of America
Production: Bel-Air Productions, Bel-Air Productions, United Artists, United Artists
Cast: John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, George Sawaya, Peter Gordon, Tor Johnson, Akim Tamiroff, Clive Morgan, Sally Yarnell, Basil Rathbone, Claire Carleton, John Sheffield

Overview:

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...

Keywords:

england experiment suspended animation mad doctor brain surgeon