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The Black Sleep
The Black Sleep

The Black Sleep

6.1/10

1hr 22mins

Country:US

1956

HorrorScience Fiction
Spoken Languages: English

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...

Budget

$225,000.00

Production companies

Bel-Air Productions, United Artists

Genre

Horror, Science Fiction

Runtime

1hr 22mins

Rating

6.1/10

Release Date

1956-06-15

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