Dead Sleep

Dead Sleep
Film poster
Directed byAlec Mills
Written byMichael Rymer
Produced byStanley O'Toole
StarringLinda Blair
Tony Bonner
CinematographyJohn Stokes
Edited byDavid Halliday
Music byBrian May
Production
company
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish

Dead Sleep is a 1990 Australian horror film directed by Alec Mills, 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.

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.

Cast

  • Linda Blair as Maggie Healey
  • Tony Bonner as Dr. Jonathan Heckett
  • Andrew Booth as Hugh Clayton
  • Christine Amor as Sister Kereby
  • Sueyan Cox as Kaye
  • Brian Moll as Dr. Shamberg
  • Vassy Cotsopoulos as Thena Fuery
  • Craig Cronin as Dr. Harry Lark
  • Peta Downes as Jessica Sharp
  • Suzie MacKenzie as Wendy
  • Russell Krause as Orderly
  • Slim de Grey as Mr McCarthy
  • Graham Matters as Patient

References

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


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