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The Black Sleep

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

15 Jun 1956
  • United States of America
82 mins
6.1
43 votes
  • Horror
  • 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...
  • Basil Rathbone

    as Sir Joel Cadman
  • Herbert Rudley

    as Dr. Gordon Ramsay
  • Patricia Blair

    as Laurie Munroe
  • Akim Tamiroff

    as Odo the Gypsy
  • Phyllis Stanley

    as Daphne
  • Lon Chaney Jr.

    as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
  • Bela Lugosi

    as Casimir
  • John Carradine

    as Bohemund
  • George Sawaya

    as Sailor-Subject
  • Tor Johnson

    as Mr. Curry
  • Sally Yarnell

    as Female Subject
  • Peter Gordon

    as Sgt. Steele

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