Review – The Corpse Vanishes

As does Bela Lugosi’s career. After being the toast of the horror movie world in the 1930s, his career sped right through the guardrail and over a cliff. This picture is from 1942, but already it’s so cheap and dreadful that it presages what would eventually become of this tragic, talented actor. In this ordeal he plays a mad scientist who knocks out brides on their wedding days and then snatches their bodies, drags them back to his lab, and sucks out their bride juices to make an eternal youth formula for his aging wife. Though the cast might have done something better with a better script or at least better film stock, this turns out to be a romp of incompetence. See if desperate