In nineteenth-century England, a renowned brain surgeon saves a former student from execution on a false murder conviction and transports him to an ancient, repurposed abbey in the countryside. There, he dupes his student into assisting him in mapping the functions of various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under the influence of a terrible animation-suspending drug known as "black sleep." Following that, the student and the daughter of one of the subjects discover that the majority of the subjects have survived but are being held in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of derangement...
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In nineteenth-century England, a renowned brain surgeon saves a former student from execution on a false murder conviction and transports him to an ancient, repurposed abbey in the countryside. There, he dupes his student into assisting him in mapping the functions of various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under the influence of a terrible animation-suspending drug known as "black sleep." Following that, the student and the daughter of one of the subjects discover that the majority of the subjects have survived but are being held in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of derangement...
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