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Release Date: 1942

Cast: Elizabeth Russell, Frank Moran, Joan Barclay, Minerva Urecal, Gwen Kenyon, Béla Lugosi, Angelo Rossitto, Kenneth Harlan, Luana Walters, Murdock MacQuarrie, Tris Coffin, Vince Barnett ...MORE

Cast: Elizabeth Russell, Frank Moran, Joan Barclay, Minerva Urecal, Gwen Kenyon, Béla Lugosi, Angelo Rossitto, Kenneth Harlan, Luana Walters, Murdock MacQuarrie, Tris Coffin, Vince Barnett, Sheldon Jett  ...LESS

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The Corpse Vanishes is a 1942 American mystery and horror film directed by Wallace Fox. The screenplay was written by Harvey Gates. The film stars Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist who injects his aging wife (played by Elizabeth Russell) with fluids from virginal young brides in order to preserve her beauty. Luana Walters as a journalist and Tristram Coffin as a small town doctor investigate and solve the disappearances of the brides. The film bears some resemble to the real world story of Elizabeth Báthory, a 16th century Hungarian countess and serial killer who was said to preserve her... MORE

The Corpse Vanishes is a 1942 American mystery and horror film directed by Wallace Fox. The screenplay was written by Harvey Gates. The film stars Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist who injects his aging wife (played by Elizabeth Russell) with fluids from virginal young brides in order to preserve her beauty. Luana Walters as a journalist and Tristram Coffin as a small town doctor investigate and solve the disappearances of the brides. The film bears some resemble to the real world story of Elizabeth Báthory, a 16th century Hungarian countess and serial killer who was said to preserve her beauty by bathing in the blood of virginal young women. The film was later the subject of a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode. On the day of Alice Wentworth’s wedding, mad scientist Dr. Lorenz sends the young bride a poisoned orchid, the scent of which places the young woman in a state of suspended animation. He then spirits her body away to the basement laboratory of his isolated mansion and extracts her bodily fluids to inject into his vain and aged wife in order to renew her youth and beauty. A young journalist, Patricia Hunter, investigates the case and discovers it involves an unusual orchid. LESS