Escapement (also known as The Electronic Monster) is a 1958 British horror science fiction film directed by Montgomery Tully and David Paltenghi (dream sequences).

Inquiring into the mysterious death of a Hollywood star, insurance investigator Jeff Keenan uncovers an exclusive psychiatric clinic on the French Riviera.

Here, patients who want to escape the stresses of life are hypnotized, then laid out in morgue-like drawers and left to dream for several weeks.

"[5] Variety wrote: "The Electronic Monster offers one or two novel twists to an old cinema standby, the one about the diabolical scientist-sorcerer who creates disciples by toying with human brains.

Since modern audiences seem intrigued with dramati-clinical sorties into the mysteries of the human thought mechanism, the Columbia release generates a certain pseudo-scientific appeal that should qualify it for comfortable second-billing.