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Brilliant and touching

Admirable film.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Bela Lugosi (Dr Lorenz), Luana Walters (Patricia Hunter), Tris Coffin (Dr Foster), Kenneth Harlan (editor), Vince Barnett (Sandy), Elizabeth Russell (Countess Lorenz), Minerva Urecal (Fagah), Angelo Rossitto (Toby), Joan Barclay (Alice Wentworth), Gwen Kenton (Peggy Woods), Frank Moran (Angel), George Eldredge (Mike), Gladys Faye (Mrs Wentworth), Eddie Kane (district attorney), Murdock MacQuarrie (minister), Frank O'Connor (policeman).Director: WALLACE FOX. Screenplay: Harvey Gates. Story: Gerald Schnitzer, Sam Robins. Photography: Arthur Reed. Release prints processed in sepia. Film editor: Robert Golden. Art director: Dave Milton. Music directors: Johnny Lange and Lew Porter. Production manager: Ed W. Rote. Assistant director: Arthur Hammond. Sound recording; Glen Glenn. Associate producer: Barney Sarecky. Producers: Sam Katzman, Jack Dietz.Copyright 8 May 1942 by Monogram Pictures Corp. U.S. release: 8 May 1942. No recorded New York opening. 7 reels. 64 minutes. Alternative title: Case of the Missing Brides.COMMENT: This really silly story about a mad scientist who extracts the blood of virgin brides to keep his wife young, is given a bit of life and vitality through the sterling efforts of some of its players and by Wallace Fox's occasionally slick direction. The players who come to the rescue of the script are led by the lovely Luana Walters, the surprisingly personable Tris Coffin (as the hero, no less), ever-reliable Kenneth Harlan and the fascinating Angelo Rossitto (who actually has a few words of dialogue). I have exclude Mr Lugosi who can play this sort of role standing on his head. Somehow the film's strained production values seem to match his waning charisma.

Brides are dying, during wedding ceremonies; under mysterious circumstances. Stranger still, the bodies are being stolen.One reporter, finds a clue: a rare flower; used as a corsage, that is a species of poisonous plant; has been given to each victim, by an unknown benefactor.Bela Lugosi, plays one of his most interesting roles yet; as a doctor, that is using the blood of brides; to restore the beauty of his betrothed.The Corpse Vanishes, is a really good movie. It may not feel like an actual horror film, but the talent gathered; plays the movie well. The acting ability of the talent gathered, should have been better recognized.The Corpse Vanishes, will appeal to Bela Lugosi fans; and to fans of classical horror.

I really liked this movie when I first saw it, it was different and amazing, it starred Bela Lugosi.... but then I saw other movies similar to it. After that, I saw the mst3k version of it. Eventually, I saw how unintentionally funny it was, as well as how cool I thought it was the first time around. It seems like whenever I see this movie I have a new opinion on it. Sometimes giving a film another chance lets you see the good or bad parts that you missed the first time. The film gets nine stars because of Lugosi's performance, the unique quality of the film, and for the mst3k version being so entertaining. I love Lugosi, and if you are a fan too, I recommend checking out this movie.

"Bullets for Bandits" director Wallace Fox never lets the action lag in "The Corpse Vanishes," a preposterous but provocative Monogram pictures potboiler. Although he achieved immortal fame as Bram Stoker's legendary vampire in Tod Browning's "Dracula," Bela Lugosi spent more screen time cast as either sinister scientists or deranged professors. In fact, the snappy screenplay by Sam Robins and Henry Gates, based on a story by Gerald Schnitzer, anticipates a similar plot in the later Lugosi B-movie "Voodoo Man" where he played a mad doctor who kidnapped women as part of a ritual to bring his zombie wife back to life. In "The Corpses Vanishes," brides collapse at the altar during the wedding ceremony and Dr. Lorenz hijacks their corpses so he can draw glandular fluid from their necks and restore his decrepit wife to her pristine beauty. Furthermore, both films feature a mentally challenged character who loves to stroke the hair of the victims. Angel (Frank Moran) does the stroking here while John Carradine did the stroking in "Voodoo Man." Indeed, "The Corpse Vanishes" and "Voodoo Man" qualify as far-fetched little melodramas, but they are entertaining nonsense staged with some competence. Mind you, Lugosi was a better actor than he received credit for, and his straight-faced performance in "The Corpse Vanishes" makes this atmospheric, 64-minute, black & white epic better than is should be. Rather than making it a predictable police procedural, Fox and company replace the typical gun-toting copper with a fast-talking female reporter eager to get off the society page and onto the front page"The Corpse Vanishes" opens as a bride , Phyllis Hamilton, collapses at the altar. Dr. Rayburn pronounces the bride dead, and they contact Forest Mortuary to fetch the body. When the hearse arrives for the body, the attendants learn to their chagrin that the body has already been picked up and spirited away. A montage of newspaper printing presses state that this constitutes the fourth time that something so unspeakable has taken place. Society reporter Patricia Hunter (Luana Walters of "The Third Sex") and her photographer Sandy (Vince Barnett of "Scarface") covered the wedding. Later, they cover a second wedding and the bride drops dead at the altar, too. Sandy presents Patricia with a souvenir from the wedding that turns out to be a rare and exotic orchid. This is the clue that Patricia needs to learn more about the people behind this audacious plot to kidnap brides. Our heroine has a devil of a time persuading her antagonistic boss Keenan to let her investigate. After all, Patricia learns the whereabouts of the professor who had once grew the flowers that link each of the fatal weddings. A florist, Mr. Smith, informs her that the gentlemen lives in Brookdale. Patricia heads off to interview Dr. Lorenz (Bela Lugosi of "Invisible Ghost") about these unique flowers. Initially, she tries to hire a cab, but the cabbie refuses to take her, so she catches a ride on the back of a truck carrying a casket out to the Lorenz estate. The driver, Mike, spots her and removes her. As she is walking along the road, another doctor, Dr. Foster (Tristram Coffin of "Homicide"), who is working Lorenz to find a cure for his wife, gives her a lift. "Professor Lorenz is a man of unusual accomplishments, but his wife is rather peculiar. I expect you'll find them both a bit eccentric." The Lorenz house is surrounded by a high wall with gates for privacy. When Dr. Foster and Patricia arrive, Lorenz is playing an organ. A midget named Toby takes them in to see Dr. Lorenz. Countess Lorenz slaps Patricia because she suspects that she is up to no good. Patricia has no desire to stick around after she interviews Lorenz, but a storm prevents her from leaving. The night that she spends at Lorenz's residence is the stuff of nightmares. She snoops around and sees Lorenz and his wife Countess Lorenz (Elizabeth Russell of "Bedlam") sleeping in coffins. Later, when he talks to Lorenz, he observes that he prefers coffins to a bed. Patricia manages to get back to her newspaper where her cynical editor Keenan threatens to fire her until Dr. Foster shows up to validate her far-fetched story. The big twist comes when Patricia convinces Keenan to stage a phony wedding. The police are poised to make an arrest when a guy shows up with an orchid. Everything looks good for the wedding. Indeed, Dr. Lorenz and his wife read the newspaper earlier about the impending wedding and both love the picture of a June bride, Peggy Woods (Gwen Kenyon) who decided to pose as a bride for the publicity that the incident will generate and thereby advance her career. Just before the wedding begins, Patricia learns that the real reverend needs to see her. The reverend lies sprawled on the floor of his study behind a desk so Patricia doesn't see him when he enters the room. None other than Dr. Lorenz is waiting for her and he kidnaps Patricia and takes her back to his house. Just as Lorenz is about to carry out his experiment on Patricia, he is stabbed in the back by the mother of a mentally challenged man who likes to stroke the hair of the unconscious women in Lorenz's laboratory. "The Corpse Vanishes" concludes with Patricia giving up her job as a newspaper woman and marrying Dr. Foster. Fox doesn't rely heavily on comic relief was usually the case in this movies. He stages the action with fast efficiency