7/19/2014

The Corpse Vanishes/The Case of the Missing Brides (1942) - Sinister Lugosi does the mad doctor in obscure virgin fluid turkey



Strange, funny poster for Wallace Fox's The Corpse Vanishes

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Well, there isn't much to write about this rather obscure, very low quality horror drama ... Someone on the Internet has summed up its plot perfectly in just one sentence:
"A scientist, aided by an old hag & her two sons - a malicious dwarf and a brutish moron, kills virgin brides, steals their bodies, & extracts gland fluid to keep his ancient wife alive and young."
Bela Lugosi (Dracula (1931)) of course plays the mad Dr. Lorenz, who poisons brides at weddings to "feed" them to his strange wife. This unfortunately doesn't provide anything really worth seeing.
- But Corpse Vanishes does have a dwarf!
It is directed by the productive, if not strictly speaking gifted, director Wallace Fox (Bowery at Midnight (1942)), and the film is in public domain and can be downloaded free and legally right here.

 Watch the original trailer for this shabby flick right here

The kind of married couple you don't wanna invite to your wedding or anything else at all, really, in Wallace Fox's The Corpse Vanishes
Cost: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
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What do you think of The Corpse Vanishes?
Have you ever seen anything of some real quality from Wallace Fox?

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