Movies Like The Black Sleep (1956)

The Black Sleep is a 1956 horror, science fiction film from Reginald Le Borg with a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Black Friday and Doctor Blood's Coffin.

Horror Science Fiction

Black Friday

1940

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.

6.0

MagicScore

Doctor Blood's Coffin

1961

After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.

5.1

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Forever Young

1992

A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.

6.5

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Frankenstein

1931

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

7.5

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Twice-Told Tales

1963

3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.

6.2

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I Was a Teenage Werewolf

1957

A hypnotherapist uses a temperamental teenager as a guinea pig for a serum which transforms him into a vicious werewolf.

4.7

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The Brain That Wouldn't Die

1962

Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.

4.7

MagicScore

Doctor Butcher M.D.

1980

After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.

5.5

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The Quiet Ones

2014

A professor and his students perform a dangerous experiment that causes a young woman to lose her sanity.

5.1

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#10

Fear Chamber

1968

The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.

4.3

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#11

Curse of the Fly

1965

The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.

5.4

MagicScore

#12

The Golden Compass

2007

After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.

6.1

MagicScore

#13

The Man with Two Brains

1983

A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.

6.2

MagicScore

#14

Alien³

1992

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.

6.4

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#15

Crisis

1950

An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

6.6

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#16

Cargo

2009

The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.

5.9

MagicScore

#17

Planet Earth

1974

The time: the 22nd century. The place: the Confederacy, a matriarchy where men are enslaved and impotent. The hero: Dylan Hunt, a handsome, vigorous 20th-century scientist awakened from suspended animation - just the "breeder" a Confederacy dominatrix has been waiting for! Can Hunt defy the Confederacy and free his downtrodden fellow males, or is he doomed to slavery on Planet Earth? A sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II.

5.7

MagicScore

#18

Genesis II

1973

A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.

5.7

MagicScore

#19

Starcrash

1978

A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.

4.2

MagicScore

#20

Island of Lost Souls

1932

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Black Sleep?

The top films similar to The Black Sleep by MovieMagicScore are Black Friday (6.0), Doctor Blood's Coffin (5.1), Forever Young (6.5). Each shares horror/science fiction themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Black Sleep worth watching?

The Black Sleep holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10 from 45 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Black Sleep?

The Black Sleep (1956) is a horror, science fiction film directed by Reginald Le Borg, starring Basil Rathbone, Herbert Rudley, Patricia Blair.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Black Sleep?

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About movies like The Black Sleep

This ranked list pairs The Black Sleep (1956), a horror and science fiction film from Reginald Le Borg, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Basil Rathbone take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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