The Black Sleep
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 derangement...
Actors: Lon Chaney Jr. , Bela Lugosi , Herbert Rudley , Basil Rathbone , John Carradine , Akim Tamiroff , Patricia Blair , Phyllis Stanley , Tor Johnson , Sally Yarnell , George Sawaya
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Quality: SD
Release: 1956
IMDb: 6.1