Where to Watch The Black Sleep (1956)

Thinking about watching 'The Black Sleep' from the comfort of your living room? Discovering 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 take the pressure off.

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 nitty-gritty 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.

Curious about the story behind it? 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 Tubi TV, Cultpix, Hoopla, Prime Video Free with Ads, Fawesome, Pluto TV, Prime Video, and ScreenPix Apple TV Channel .