Horror, Science Fiction
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...
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Box
Kill Switch
The Attic Expeditions
The Raven
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
Viking
Dread
Before I Hang
The Man with Nine Lives
The Man They Could Not Hang
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Blood on Satan's Claw
The Sunken-Eyed Ghost
Maniac
Men Behind the Sun
A Knight in Camelot
Piranha
Night of the Demon
Cyst
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Box
IMDB 5.6 | Oct , 2009
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.Kill Switch
IMDB 4.8 | Jun , 2017
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.The Attic Expeditions
IMDB 4.9 | Mar , 2001
Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Ek, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.The Raven
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1935
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
IMDB 6 | Oct , 1975
Ilsa, a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners, strives to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the frontlines.Viking
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 2022
Five people are recruited by the Viking Society to collaborate on the first manned mission to Mars. They were chosen because of the psychological similarities they share with the five astronauts who will travel to the red planet. These volunteers therefore form a B-team of alter egos who will experience the adventure in parallel, behind closed doors on Earth.Dread
IMDB 5.5 | Jul , 2009
Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.Before I Hang
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 1940
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.The Man with Nine Lives
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1940
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project.The Man They Could Not Hang
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1939
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.The Island of Dr. Moreau
IMDB 5.5 | Jul , 1977
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.The Blood on Satan's Claw
IMDB 6.1 | Jan , 1971
The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.The Sunken-Eyed Ghost
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1981
A mad doctor uses a fake taxi driver to kidnap victims and then removes their eyes in hopes of perfecting an eye transplant that will allow his blind wife to see again. One of the doctor's servants ends up getting possessed by not one, but several of the victims.Maniac
IMDB 3.8 | Sep , 1934
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.Men Behind the Sun
IMDB 6.1 | Dec , 1988
The film is a graphic depiction of the war atrocities committed by the Japanese at Unit 731, the secret biological weapons experimentation unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. The film details the various cruel medical experiments Unit 731 inflicted upon the Chinese and Soviet prisoners at the tail-end of the war.A Knight in Camelot
IMDB 5.4 | Nov , 1998
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.Piranha
IMDB 5.9 | Aug , 1978
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.Night of the Demon
IMDB 7 | Nov , 1957
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.Cyst
IMDB 4.7 | Sep , 2020
In the 1960s, a nurse's last day on her job is ruined when a doctor inadvertently creates a cyst monster that terrorizes the office.The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 1974
When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.