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The Corpse Vanishes

Released May 8, 1942 1h 4m Horror List
Tomatometer 2 Reviews 28% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
Dr. George Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) and his wife (Elizabeth Russell) are getting on in years, but they've thought of a way to thwart aging. Lorenz abducts a nubile bride-to-be, Alice (Joan Barclay), and plans to extract her valuable bodily fluids to inject into his wife, restoring her health and vitality. Journalist Patricia Hunter (Luana Walters) is investigating the case of the missing bride, but, when the trail leads her to Lorenz, she doesn't realize she's in danger of becoming his next victim.
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Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) This is poverty row gold. Rated: 4/5 Mar 6, 2014 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews A creaky Povery Row mad scientist film from yesteryear that stars a past his prime Bela Lugosi. Rated: B- Apr 30, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

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wrekabyte P This is a hidden comedic gem! The script and dead pan delivery are Seinfeld like. Way ahead of it's time. Got the cheese in the right places too. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/19/23 Full Review Mike J A very old outdated retrograde film it's not just a run of the mill film. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/28/22 Full Review martin a Again another great story all about a man who is a retired surgeon, who needs to remove fluid from the body of virgins to keep his wife young. A news reporter tries to find out the truth about the girls who have been abducted and nearly ends up dead herself. The moving walls are fantastic, a great vintage horror Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review bill t Rather nasty piece of business featuring Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist (with yes, a Renfield-like assistant and his mother, a dwarf and yes, the scientistÂs wife (sounds like a Greenaway movie actually lol). Lugosi gives his wife injections from dead brides (why them? Who knows?) so that his wife can leep looking beautiful. He gets the brides after doing a pretty clever trick with some orchids that makes the brides collapse at the altar. After another bride bites the dust, a newspaper reporter just HAPPENS to be around for the scoop, and decides to snoop around for a story. She gets all sorts of clues about the orchids and Lugosi. Heaven knows where the police were. Soon sheÂs off to BelaÂs lair, when she meets a sort of strange looking doctor who may or may not be eeeevil. It all cumulates in a totally farfetched plan to have a fake wedding to capture the mad scientist, but it seems that the scientist has x-ray vision, as he foils her plans, Oh no! What will happen? I actually liked this movie as a bit of a guilty pleasure. Lugosi is great here, his hangers-on are all very very strange, the story is actually quite nasty in some places which makes it all most watchable. A fun little view. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member I totally dug it! Lugosi rocks as the evil scientist, and the cast of evil flunkies who help him kidnap women- a demented giant, a cynical dwarf, and an old Hag- are cinema classics! Top it off with a tough girl reporter on the case..and the sinister plot takes off. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Love watching these old movies. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Dr. George Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) and his wife (Elizabeth Russell) are getting on in years, but they've thought of a way to thwart aging. Lorenz abducts a nubile bride-to-be, Alice (Joan Barclay), and plans to extract her valuable bodily fluids to inject into his wife, restoring her health and vitality. Journalist Patricia Hunter (Luana Walters) is investigating the case of the missing bride, but, when the trail leads her to Lorenz, she doesn't realize she's in danger of becoming his next victim.
Director
Wallace Fox
Producer
Sam Katzman, Jack Dietz
Screenwriter
Sam Robins
Distributor
Monogram Pictures Corporation
Production Co
Monogram
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 8, 1942, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 11, 2016
Runtime
1h 4m
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