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    The Black Sleep 1956 POSTER

    The Black Sleep

    1956

    English

    6.0

    10

    35%

    35%

    Action

    brain surgeon

    england

    experiment

    Horror

    mad doctor

    Sci-Fi

    suspended animation

    Reginald Le Borg Reginald Le Borg Director John Carradine John Carradine as Borg aka Bohemond Bela Lugosi Bela Lugosi as Casimir Herbert Rudley Herbert Rudley as Dr. Gordon Angus Ramsay Patricia Blair Patricia Blair as Laurie Monroe
    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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