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Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Spikeopath Monogram mess that has gained a modicum of support in horror circles purely for being unintentionally funny. Maybe I'm just jaded by the ream of cheaply made mad scientist movies from the 40s? But there's just not enough fright or flight here to detract from what a tedious exercise in cash cowing on the back of the Lugosi name it is.It's not as if I'm against the bonkers premise, where Bela poisons new brides to be with an orchid and uses their fluids to keep his mad wife young, hell I like berserk sometimes. But the static direction, ham acting and creaky production just irritates and makes the hour long running time seem like two hours.One for Lugosi completists only I'm afraid. 2/10

BA_Harrison The Corpse Vanishes opens in fine fashion with a series of society brides dropping dead at the altar and their bodies abducted shortly thereafter by a pair of faux morticians. Matters get even more fun when feisty investigative reporter Patricia Hunter (Luana Walters) suspects that the species of orchid worn by the brides is the key to solving the mystery and tracks down the original hybridiser of the flower, Dr. Lorenz (Lugosi), for an interview: in doing so, she puts herself in mortal danger, for it is Lorenz who is responsible for the dying and disappearing brides. With a little help from his 'family'—old crone Fagah (Minerva Urecal) and her two sons, loping brute Angel (Frank Moran), and malicious dwarf Toby (Angelo Rossitto)—Lorenz has been extracting fluids from his victims' glands and injecting them into his 80-year-old wife (Elizabeth Russell) to keep her young.Fans of cheesy poverty row horror thrillers should have a great time with this 1942 Lugosi vehicle from Monogram: featuring the Dracula star at his most hammy and with a plot that packs in so many genre tropes (hidden passageways, thunder storms, eccentric characters etc.) it's positively creaking at the seams, The Corpse Vanishes is solid schlock entertainment from start to finish.N.B. Actor Tristram Coffin, whose surname suggests that he would perfect for one of the film's more grim characters, actually plays the hero, Dr. Foster, who rescues Patricia in the film's deranged finalé (and who proposes marriage only a couple of days after first meeting the pretty news-hound).

bkoganbing Poor Bela Lugosi could be terrifying when he had a good story to play on the big screen. But it was asking way too much of Bela to carry a story like The Corpse Vanishes on the strength of his sinister accent.This film has Bela playing another mad scientist one obsessed with keeping his wife alive and youthful with some kind of extract from other young women. For reasons I'm not too clear about they have to be young brides.He's devised a great gimmick, some kind of orchid that emits a scent that induces a coma. The brides faint at the altar, then are presumed dead and the bodies spirited away. This all occurs in the town of Keystone and we know that because the Keystone Cops can't figure anything out.No it's the local Brenda Starr, reporter Luana Walters who gets the story after spending a harrowing night at the Lugosi household which consists of a shrewish Elizabeth Russell as the eternally young wife. Why anyone would want to keep that alive is beyond me, but she must have something that Bela likes. And there's also Minerva Urecal the housekeeper and her two sons giant Frank Moran and dwarf Angela Rossitto. Walters is saved by Dr. Tris Coffin who is trying to get a practice going in this out of the way hole in the wall that the Lugosi household resides. And Coffin is absolutely clueless as to what's going on until Walters spells it out for him.Seen today, The Corpse Vanishes is absolutely hilarious, so bad you can enjoy it on a camp level. Sad to say a typical anemically budgeted product from Monogram Pictures where Lugosi was toiling at the time.

Chrissie The central mystery of "The Corpse Vanishes" hinges on who is stealing the corpses of brides who unexpectedly drop dead immediately after saying "I do." The deeper mystery is why the brains of all the characters have vanished.You would think that with a string of keeled-over brides, the police, or at least the public health officials, would be trying to figure out why a bunch of young, healthy women are kicking the bucket when they should be kissing the groom. Likewise, it seems that this is the angle the newspapers would be investigating. Instead, the focus is on who is stealing the bodies. "The murderer" is the most obvious answer.Of course, with all these dead brides, one would expect the wedding business to go into a bit of a slump -- or for armed security at weddings to suddenly come into vogue. But no! Weddings go on as usual, with nobody so much as babysitting the corpse to keep it from being misappropriated.From such a foundation, you can easily imagine how inexplicable the characters' behavior remains throughout. I won't spoil the fun by providing examples, lest you, dear reader, wish to enjoy "The Corpse Vanishes" on MSTTK.