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The Black Sleep (1956)

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...

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Matthew S 30 Dec 2010

Amazing cheap-jack poverty-row affair, stunning in its non-opulence, but greatly elevated by some earnest performances by its cast of horror veterans, detailing the sincere-yet-loony-toons Dr. Cadman's (The forever-awesome Basil Rathbone) attempts at exploratory brain surgery, utilizing the mysterious drug, the titular "Black Sleep" as a rudimentary anesthetic. Unfortunately, many of his human lab-rats survive and become drooling, homicidal maniacs, several of which (Including John Carradine, Lon Chaney, Jr., Tor Johnson, and a mute, very decrepit Bela Lugosi in one of his last films-) later escape their captivity in Cadman's subterranean dungeons and mete out their own brand of vengeful justice. Great character actor Akim Tamiroff steals the whole shebang as the odious Odo, gypsy purveyor of the deranged doc's many hapless victims. Corny fun!

dean w 06 Nov 2016

Gets a pass for an interesting story. Lugosi and Chaney are present but not accounted for as they don't even speak! Herbert Rudley is quite good as the hapless prisoner that the main actor in the movie but doesn't get billing. Rathbone is a bore, and well the climax is unintentionally hilarious. Up until the last 15 minutes it very good though. Be warned this is not Lugosi's or Chaney\s or Carradine's best by far. A very good bad B Movie. I've seen worse big production movies recently that are far worse than this one.

wm m 27 Oct 2017

Rathbone and Tamiroff creepy and Chaney gets some time and Lugosi doesn't get near enough. I really enjoy this movie when it is on.

Larry Y 31 Oct 2011

The Black Sleep crams in Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Tor Johnson but this is really Herbert Rudley's picture. Wrongfully accused of murder, Rudley survives execution thanks to mad doctor Rathbone's Black Sleep formula. Recruited into body snatching and barbaric surgery, Rudley must choose between evil science and Patricia Blake's raven locks. Solid 50s horror with some killer climactic makeup effects, and it's definitely a treat to see all those icons on one screen but the viewer is obviously left craving more. VF.

Bob W 13 Jun 2016

If only it had Karloff and Price it would have collected nearly all the significant horror actors of that generation. Mostly carried by Basil Rathbone of long-running Sherlock Holmes fame who in this film gets to play the bad guy instead when Scotland Yard comes calling. The rest of the cast was mostly reduced to cliched versions of the Frankenstein monster again and again. Basically about a doc that experiments on other people's brains while alive in some desperate hope to restore his wife from her brain tumor.