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The Black Sleep (1956)

Movie"The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!"
Audience Score
61
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NR 1 hr 22 minJun 15th, 1956Horror, Science Fiction
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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...
StarringBasil RathboneHerbert RudleyPatricia Blair
DirectorReginald Le Borg

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:June 15th, 1956
Movie Budget:$225,000
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Aubrey Schenck
Production Companies:Bel-Air Productions, United Artists
Movie Tags:
experimentenglandmad doctorsuspended animationbrain surgeon