The Black Sleep (Blu-ray)
The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 22, 2016
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney, Jr., Akim Tamiroff, John Carradine & Bela Lugosi | |
Performer: | Tor Johnson, Patricia Blair & Herbert Rudley | |
Directed by | Reginald Le Borg | |
Edited by | John F. Schreyer | |
Screenplay by | John C. Higgins | |
Composition by | Les Baxter | |
Story by | Gerald Drayson Adams | |
Produced by | Howard W. Koch | |
Director of Photography: | Gordon Avil | |
Executive Production by | Aubrey Schenck |
Entertainment Reviews:
33%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 116
Rating: C+ --
A mediocre film that has earned a rep for wasting an all-star caliber cast of some of the greatest horror actors.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 2/4 --
probably the best picture that tor johnson starred in... that doesn't say much.
sbs.is
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The Black Sleep isn't nearly as bad as its reputation, but a higher budget and a more accomplished director than Reginald LeBorg might have yielded a more respectable horror yarn.
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Creative Loafing
Product Description:
Given its cast and director, it is disheartening that THE BLACK SLEEP isn't any better than it is. Basil Rathbone heads the cast as Sir Joel Cadman, who uses a mind-controlling drug known as "The Black Sleep" to place brilliant scientist Gordon Ramsay (Herbert Rudley) under his control. Cadman needs Ramsay's intellect and expertise to aid him in a series of mysterious, covert experiments involving brain transplants. Evidently Cadman has already endured a few failures, as witness the present feeble-minded state of his former "volunteer" Mungo (Lon Chaney Jr.). Ramsay and heroine Laurie Munro (Patricia Blake) finally learn what Cadman is up to when they stumble upon a dungeon full of his previous "experiments," including a demented, emaciated man (John Carradine) and a blank-eyed monstrosity (Tor Johnson). In his last mainstream film, Bela Lugosi essays the thankless role of Cadman's mute servant.