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The Black Sleep (1956)iMDB Rating: 6.0
Date Released : 1 June 1956
Genre : Horror, Sci-Fi
Stars : Basil Rathbone, Akim Tamiroff, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB

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England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. Cadmund offers to see that Ramsey gets a proper burial and gives him a sleeping powder to get him through the night, which Ramsey takes, unaware it is really an East Indian drug, "nind andhera" ("the black sleep"), which induces a deathlike state of anesthesia. Pronounced dead in his cell, he is turned over to Cadmund, who promptly revives him and takes him to his home in a remote abbey. Cadmund explains he believes Ramsey is innocent and needs his talents to help him in an project, which he is reluctant to immediately discuss further. In fact, Cadmund's wife lies in a coma from a deep-seated brain tumor, and he is attempting to find a safe surgical route to its site by experimenting on the brains of others, whom Ramsey comes to learn are alive during the process, anesthetized by the "black sleep", and ...

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Low budget thrills with the horror stars

I have just watched The Black Sleep for the first time and I found it rather enjoyable despite the low budget and reading several bad reviews about it

A mad doctor, Cadmund, experiments on the brains of his subjects to help to remove a brain tumor which his wife is suffering from. To help him, he brings back to life a criminal who has just been hanged for murder. He uses a drug known as The Black Sleep to do these experiments with. Unfortunately, the subjects he had experimented on earlier are now mutants and are released from their underground cellar and they kill Cadmund at the end.

This movie is worth having in a collection just for the horror stars in it: Basil Rathbone as Cadmund, Bela Lugosi (in one of his last films) as a mute butler, Lon Chaney Jr. also as a mute, John Carradine as a mutant, Akim Tamiroff and Tor Johnson (Plan 9 From Outer Space).

I found this movie great fun to watch.

Rating: 3 stars out of 5.