The Black Sleep (1956)

Director
Reginald Le Borg

Main cast
Basil Rathbone; Akim Tamiroff; Lon Chaney Jr.; John Carradine; Bela Lugosi

Genres
Sci-Fi, Horror

Description
A brain surgeon's experiments create a race of deadly freaks.


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