''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
Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959) is an American actress and activist. She played Regan MacNeil in the horror film ''The Exorcist'' (1973), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for an Academy Award. The film ...
, veteran Australian actor
Tony Bonner
Anthony Frederick Bonner (born 23 November 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor and singer. Bonner became famous in the 1960s children's television series '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'', later moving on to lead roles in the ...
and Vassy Costiopoulos.
[Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p40] The film went straight to video.
Plot synopsis
Based on actual events, Maggie Healy (
Linda Blair
Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959) is an American actress and activist. She played Regan MacNeil in the horror film ''The Exorcist'' (1973), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for an Academy Award. The film ...
) works at a
mental hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, behavioral health hospitals, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, dissociati ...
and learns the grisly truth about Dr. Jonathan Heckett (
Tony Bonner
Anthony Frederick Bonner (born 23 November 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor and singer. Bonner became famous in the 1960s children's television series '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'', later moving on to lead roles in the ...
) who performs suspicious operations on comatose patients.
Cast
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Linda Blair
Linda Denise Blair (born January 22, 1959) is an American actress and activist. She played Regan MacNeil in the horror film ''The Exorcist'' (1973), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received a nomination for an Academy Award. The film ...
as Maggie Healey
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Tony Bonner
Anthony Frederick Bonner (born 23 November 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor and singer. Bonner became famous in the 1960s children's television series '' Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'', later moving on to lead roles in the ...
as Dr. Jonathan Heckett
*Andrew Booth as Hugh Clayton
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Christine Amor
Christine Debra Amor (born 1952) is an Australian actress of stage, television and film.
Career
Amor was born in Brisbane, Queensland. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). She has acted extensively in television gu ...
as Sister Kereby
*Sueyan Cox as Kaye
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Brian Moll
Brian Percy Moll (19 May 1925 – 9 August 2013) was a British-born Australian comedian character actor of stage, television and film and director and producer who emigrated to Australia from his native England in 1950. Quitting his job as a pub ...
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
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Slim de Grey
Clifford Frank de Grey (20 May 1918 – 16 March 2007), better known as Slim De Grey, was an English-Australian actor, compere, musician, lyricist, composer and comedian.
He served in the Australian Army during World War II, seeing action in th ...
as Mr McCarthy
References
External links
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Dead Sleep' on
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''Dead Sleep''at Oz Movies
1992 films
1992 horror films
Australian horror films
Films about medical malpractice
Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Films scored by Brian May (composer)
Australian thriller films
1990s English-language films
1990s Australian films
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