Where to Watch The Black Sleep (1956) Online

Want to behold the glory that is 'The Black Sleep' on your TV or mobile device at home? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Reginald Le Borg-directed movie via subscription can be challenging, so we here at Moviefone want to do right by you.

We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'The Black Sleep' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'The Black Sleep' right now, here are some specifics about the Bel-Air Productions, United Artists science fiction flick.

Released June 15th, 1956, 'The Black Sleep' stars Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair, Akim Tamiroff The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 22 min, and received a user score of 61 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 40 respected users.

Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the 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..."

'The Black Sleep' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Pluto TV, Cultpix, Tubi TV, and Hoopla .