THE BLACK SLEEP
The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
Sir Joel Cadman, a mad scientist, kidnaps his victims and cuts open their brains in an effort to discover a means to cure his wife's brain tumor.
About This Film
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...
Film Details
Director
Reginald Le Borg
Writers
John C. Higgins, Gerald Drayson Adams
Keywords
Psychotronic Film
Kidnapping
Insanity
Castle
Mad Scientist
Title Spoken By Character
Coffin
Disfigurement
Three Word Title
Person On Fire
Torch
England
Human Monster
Color In Title
Disfigured Face
Drugged
Scotland Yard
Brain
Mute
Gypsy
1800s
Brain Surgery
Human Experimentation
Begins With Voice Over Narration
Paralysis
Kidnapper
Constable
Antidote
Prison Visit
Begins With Historical Notes
Arm Tattoo
Scream Off Camera
Hidden Passage
Bound In Chains
Man Wears A Top Hat
Knock At The Door
1870s
Abbey
Partial Paralysis
India
Taking Someone's Temperature
Sherry
Brain Tumor
Newgate Prison
Involuntary Experiment Subject
Nind Andhera
Year 1872
Innocent Sentenced To Death
Three Ring Syringe
Rescued From Execution
Also Known As
Dr. Cadman's Secret