Where to Watch The Black Sleep (1956)

Planning to check out 'The Black Sleep' from the comfort of your living room? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Reginald Le Borg-directed movie via subscription can be tricky, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting.

We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - 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 finer points about the Bel-Air Productions, United Artists horror flick.

The Black Sleep starring Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair, Akim Tamiroff has a NR rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 22 min, and a scheduled release date of June 15th, 1956.

It received a user score of 61/100 on TMDb, which put together reviews from 44 respected users.

Here’s what’s going on in this one... 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 ScreenPix Apple TV Channel, Prime Video, Fawesome, Prime Video with Ads, Cultpix, Hoopla, ScreenPix Amazon Channel , Prime Video Free with Ads, Pluto TV, Prime Video, and Tubi TV .