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Binding: DVD
EAN: 5060005701024
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: May 08, 1942
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Case of the Vanishing Virgins
The film begins with a church wedding. The bride faints; a doctor declares her dead! A black car takes the body away. Then the men from the morgue show up for the body. Who kidnapped another corpse? The police search only finds a hired man who knows nothing. There will be a society wedding. What can go wrong? The bride gets an unusual orchid as a gift. Poor Alice faints, her body is removed. Does the orchid have a strange smell? Miss Hunter discovers the connection btween the dead brides. We learn ... Read More
Rating:  - fun horror flick with the always impressive Lugosi
After starring in "Dracula" (1931) one of the first major horror films of the sound era, Bela Lugosi's career should have kept going higher and higher. Instead, the talented actor found himself struggling to stay afloat and maintain credibility in a series of hokey productions from 'poverty row' studio, Monogram Pictures. The movies Lugosi made during this career lowpoint came to be known as "The Monogram 9".
THE CORPSE VANISHES (1942) is generally regarded as quite possibly the best ... Read More
Rating: - It's worth seeing once
While this movie was definitely watchable, you really only need to see it once. The movie, while beginning with a great plot and characters, somehow manages to fall from expectations about a third of the way through. The movie somewhat resembles an episode of Columbo where we know who the killer is and we simply watch to see if the other characters can figure it out as well.
Bela Lugosi plays a mad doctor, who is seen most of the time driving a hearse, picking up "corpses" of young ... Read More
Rating: - You May Wish That You Had Vanished
The Plot: Young brides appear to die on their wedding day. But where are their corpses? They have vanished! Heady stuff. It turns out that Dr. Lorenz (Bela Lugosi) had flowers delivered to the brides. The flowers were a bit different than those you might get from your local florist. These flowers caused the brides to go into a deathlike coma.
Dr. Lorenz had a pretty good racket going until reporter Patricia Hunter (Luana Walters, whose career was winding down though she was only 29 ... Read More
Rating: - The Case of the Missing Brides
Bela Lugosi plays Dr. Lorenz an eccentric and of course mad scientist. Aided by an old hag & her two sons, a malicious dwarf (played by Angelo Rossitto of Freaks (1932) and more recent as The Master in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)) and a brutish moron (played by former professional boxer Frank Moran), he uses hybridized orchards to put virgin brides into a comatose state so he can steal their bodies & extract fluids from their glands to keep his ancient wife alive and young. Along comes reporter ... Read More
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