The Black Sleep

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The Black Sleep is a 1956 horror and science fiction movie directed by Reginald Le Borg. It stars Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley and Patricia Blair. It runs 1h 22m and is rated NR. Streaming in the US on Cultpix, ScreenPix and ScreenPix Amazon Channel.

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...