The Corpse Vanishes

1942

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.6/10 10 3792 3.8K

mad scientist evil dwarf female reporter basement morgue murdered brides deadly orchid

Plot summary

A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.

Director

Wallace Fox Photo
Wallace Fox

Top cast

Sam Katzman Photo
Sam Katzman as Man in Newspaper Office
Bela Lugosi Photo
Bela Lugosi as Dr. George Lorenz
Minerva Urecal Photo
Minerva Urecal as Fagah
Angelo Rossitto Photo
Angelo Rossitto as Toby
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578.4 MB
1054*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 2 min
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1.05 GB
1568*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 2 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Tenkun 6 / 10

Good Low-Qual '30s Horror with Bela to Boot

Reviewed by classicsoncall 6 / 10

"Someday the master will catch you, then you'll be sorry."

I'm surprised at the rather low rating IMDb viewers have given this film, as I rather like the set up for this one. Beautiful young brides wind up dead at the altar just as they are about to recite their wedding vows, and their bodies are stolen shortly after. Mad scientist Dr. Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) is behind the mayhem in this low budget Monogram creep fest; he uses glandular and spinal fluid from the victims to inject into his haggardly wife (Elizabeth Russell) to keep her young and beautiful. Countess Lorenz is rather one dimensional in her role, but at least she mimics Lugosi's speech pattern rather effectively.Lorenz is surrounded by a veritable menagerie of sideshow outcasts, including the wizened Fagah (Minerva Urecal), and her two sons, one a hulking brute and another a freakish dwarf named Toby (Angelo Rossitto). Hot on the trail of the missing bride mystery is reporter Pam Hunter (Luana Walters), who follows up on her theory that the brides died from inhaling the sweet but deadly odor from a poisonous orchid developed by Dr. Lorenz. When Lorenz becomes wise to the reporter's initiative, he sets out to make her yet another victim, but alas, he's done in by his own sweet Fagah, in revenge for killing her brute son who had a penchant for stroking the hair of the doctor's corpses."The Corpse Vanishes" offers just the right blend of atmospheric sets and bump in the night action to keep things interesting, a nifty little vehicle for Bela Lugosi's talents. You can have some fun with this one, made to order for that clichéd dark and stormy night.
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