The Corpse Vanishes

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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 4/5 Stars •  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 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Love watching these old movies. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member One of my favorite Bela films. It's pure gold! Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member I like creaky old thrillers and the mysteriously magnetic Elizabeth Russell but this isn't very good, even by my standards. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Weak horror film has Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist who takes the blood of virgin brides to give his own wife eternal youth. I did like the set up for this film and it does feature one of the dwarves from Tod Browning's "Freaks" but overall this film is cheaply made, badly acted, and hardly worth watching unless your a Lugosi fan (which I am). Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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