The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep (1956)

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

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...

Date of release
1956-06-15
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (45)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Reginald Le Borg

Casting

  • Basil Rathbone — Sir Joel Cadman
  • Herbert Rudley — Dr. Gordon Ramsay
  • Patricia Blair — Laurie Munroe
  • Akim Tamiroff — Odo the Gypsy
  • Phyllis Stanley — Daphne
  • Lon Chaney Jr. — Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
  • Bela Lugosi — Casimir
  • John Carradine — Bohemund
  • George Sawaya — Sailor-Subject
  • Tor Johnson — Mr. Curry
  • Sally Yarnell — Female Subject
  • Peter Gordon — Sgt. Steele

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