Directed by:
Wallace FoxCinematography:
Arthur ReedCast:
Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin, Elizabeth Russell, Minerva Urecal, Angelo Rossitto, Kenneth Harlan, Gwen Kenyon, Vince Barnett, Joan Barclay (more)Plots(1)
Hailed as a "deliciously outrageous horror exercise of the 1940s," The Corpse Vanishes features Bela Lugosi as Dr. Lorenz, an evil horticulturist who poisons young brides just before they walk down the aisle with the scent of a mysterious orchid. Bringing them back to his lair in a catatonic state, the vile doctor removes fluid from their glands and transplants it into his wife's body to keep her young and beautiful. When fledgling reporter Pat Hunter (Luana Walters) catches on to Lorenz's scheme, she concocts a false story in order to snoop around his estate but winds up trapped there overnight due to a nasty, sudden storm. Will the innocent news maven become the doctor's next victim, or will his undoing be the biggest break of her career? (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
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The 1942 American movie The Corpse Vanishes is such a very straightforward, simple horror movie that tries to be a bit of a whodunit, although it has the problem of lacking real suspense. Sure, Bela Lugosi pops up in the way you have come to love about him. However, you may be forgiven for thinking that is not enough because he does not really have much screen time to act out anything properly, and the plot is so uninteresting that you wonder how this movie survived.
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