The Corpse Vanishes
“Horror to make your hair stand on end!”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 56, rated by 1 admin.
Higher CrapScores mean more entertainingly bad. How we score movies.
Brides keep collapsing, their bodies keep disappearing, and Bela Lugosi's household has an extremely unusual beauty routine. This brisk old dark-house mystery has all the suspicious orchids and ominous manners a midnight matinee needs. The Dracula-like touches are often more amusing than frightening.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 5.5/10
- Plot
- 7.5/10
- Effects
- 3.5/10
- Dialogue
- 4.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 7/10
“Something borrowed, something blue, something missing from the morgue.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 56
Synopsis and movie facts
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
- Released
- 1942
- Directed by
- Wallace Fox
- Running time
- 63 min
Starring
- Bela Lugosi as Dr. Lorenz
- Luana Walters as Patricia Hunter
- Tristram Coffin as Dr. Foster
- Elizabeth Russell as Countess Lorenz
- Minerva Urecal as Fagah
- Angelo Rossitto as Toby
- Frank Moran as Angel
- George Eldredge as Mike
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: The Corpse Vanishes (1942), directed by Wallace Fox. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · millionmonkeytheater.com
The review finds it effective within Monogram's limited budget but says the repeated Dracula reminders are often funny rather than scary. Full review text consulted on 2026-11-10.
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