Dead Sleep

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Dead Sleep
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Film poster
Directed byAlec Mills
Written by Michael Rymer
Produced by Stanley O'Toole
Starring Linda Blair
Tony Bonner
CinematographyJohn Stokes
Edited byDavid Halliday
Music by Brian May
Production
company
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
CountryAustralia
Language English

Dead Sleep is a 1990 Australian horror film about a series of suspicious deaths that occur in a psychiatric ward. The cast includes Linda Blair, veteran Australian actor Tony Bonner and Vassy Costiopoulos. [1] [2] The film went straight to video.

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Plot synopsis

Based on actual events, Maggie Healy (Linda Blair) works at a mental hospital and learns the grisly truth about Dr. Jonathan Heckett (Tony Bonner) who performs suspicious operations on comatose patients.

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References

  1. "Production Survey", Cinema Papers, August 1990 p70
  2. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p40