The Black Sleep

The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!

The Black Sleep — Plot

In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...

• Release date
• June 15, 1956
• Runtime
• 82 min
• Genres
• Horror, Science Fiction
• Director
• Reginald Le Borg

The Black Sleep — Cast

Basil Rathbone Sir Joel Cadman Herbert Rudley Dr. Gordon Ramsay Patricia Blair Laurie Munroe Akim Tamiroff Odo the Gypsy Phyllis Stanley Daphne Lon Chaney Jr. Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo Bela Lugosi Casimir John Carradine Bohemund