The Black Sleep
The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
82 mins
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...
George Sawaya
Sailor-Subject
Sally Yarnell
Female Subject
Peter Gordon
Sgt. Steele
Clive Morgan
Roundsman Blevins (uncredited)
Louanna Gardner
Angelina Cadman
Aubrey Schenck
Prison Coroner's Clerk (uncredited)
John Sheffield
Det. Redford (uncredited)
John C. Higgins
Screenplay
Aubrey Schenck
Executive Producer
Gordon Avil
Director of Photography
John F. Schreyer
Editor
Clarence Steensen
Set Decoration
Cherie Banks
Hairstylist
Ted Coodley
Makeup Artist
George Bau
Makeup Designer
Louis DeWitt
Visual Effects
Jack Rabin
Visual Effects