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 has generally received mixed reviews.
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The Black Sleep was released in 1956 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 14 reviews, giving The Black Sleep (1956) an average rating of 52%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 75%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 60%. Professional critics were more impressed with The Black Sleep than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 52%, The Black Sleep is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1956, which stands at 59%.
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