Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
Humaira Grant
It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Billie Morin
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Tweekums
As this film opens a young bride is just saying 'I do' when she collapses and is pronounced dead. She is driven off in a hearse then a second group of undertakers arrives; it turns out the first were body snatchers! We soon learn that she was the fourth bride to die on her wedding day then disappear. There is another society wedding is due soon and the authorities assure everybody that nothing can go wrong. Shortly before the service the bride is presented with an orchid which she wears… soon she is victim number five. Junior reporter Patricia Hunter is keen to investigate the case and discovers the orchid; it is a particularly rare hybrid created by a scientist, Dr George Lorenz, who lives not that far away. She goes to his house to ask him about the flower and discovers far more than she bargained for. Dr Lorenz has been collecting the brides for a bizarre procedure to keep his own, elderly wife looking young. He is assisted by his housekeeper and her sons, a malicious dwarf and a simpleton with strange proclivities. He also gets help from an unwitting local doctor.This low budget horror may have quite a few faults but I still found it rather fun. I liked the central idea even if it does rely on the police being rather incompetent not to have spotted the orchid connection after four such unlikely deaths and a protagonists who investigates the orchid herself rather than reporting it to the authorities… these details don't really matter though; sometimes one just has to accept such details are necessary for the story. The characters are solid; Luana Walters does a fine job as the spirited young reporter and Bela Lugosi is suitably creepy, without being excessively so as Dr Lorenz. The Lorenz house is suitably creepy and the use of secret passages may be cliché but still enabled us to get some mildly scary moments. Overall I thought this was a fun little film; it is unlikely to scare modern horror fans but it is still worth a watch.
morrison-dylan-fan
With having had a fun time watch a number of Horror movies starring Bela Lugosi for the 2013 Horror Challenge on IMDb's Horror board,I decided to take a look at a box set which had been sent from a very kind IMDber.Looking at the titles,I was delighted to see that I would get the chance to have a double dose of Bela.The plot:Desperate to keep his 70 year old wife looking youthful, Dr. George Lorenz decides to send orchids to about to be married women,which thanks to containing a chemical,causes the women to faint,and leads to Lorenz kidnapping them,so that he can get their spinal fluid for his wife.As Lorenz's kidnapping spree grows,local reporter Patricia Hunter decides to track down the missing women.Getting hold of the orchid from the latest victim,Hunter discovers that the only expert on orchids in the town is a man called Dr.George Lorenz.View on the film:For the screenplay of the movie,writers Sam Robins, Gerald Schnitzer and Harvey Gates disappointingly never give even the slightest reason for Lorenz desperate desire of keeping his wife looking youthful,which leads to the plot feeling rather disjointed.Shooting on a low budget,director Wallace Fox gives Lorenz house /mansion a chilly,low-lit appearance. Angelo Rossitto and Bela Lugosi's team up allows for a great crossing over of Tod Brownings Freaks and Dracula to take place,as Lugosi shows in his icy stare,a lust to turn every blushing bride in the town into a corpse.
MissSimonetta
Brides are dropping dead at the altar one by one. To make matters worse, their corpses have gone missing. These strange events inspire a plucky lady reporter to investigate, leading her to the home of the menacing scientist played by Bela Lugosi.While it's not awful by any means, The Corpse Vanishes (1942) feels like a waste of time. Luana Walters is a pain as the heroine, fainting at every little thing. Lugosi is alright and manages to rise somewhat above the insipid material. The highlight of the film is an atmospheric bit with Luana wandering through the Lugosi's manor in her night robe, stalked by his hunchbacked assistant. The ending includes a silly and hectic chase scene.I would recommend this only to Lugosi fanatics. The easiest way to get through it would be with the aid of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
drystyx
This is a fairly routine formula film for Horror.Young women are killed so a mad scientist can take a serum from their bodies to keep his wife young and beautiful.We really don't mind that this "formula" doesn't make sense, or that it has to be contrived to be young pretty women. Well, we do mind, but we live with that to an extent.The extent does go pretty far here. Four women are killed at the altar, with their bodies hijacked, and while I am one of those who do believe who heartedly in bungling incompetent detectives at high levels, this is beyond far fetched.There are just a few too many clichés in this, with misshapen freaks and other standards of Horror. The contrived part gets pretty high.On the bright side, the heroine is an absolute knock out, more gorgeous than about any actress you'll see in a movie made today, and she has a breath of fresh air about her, and seems bright.And you don't have to fast forward a lot. Some, but not as much as you may think. Fortunately, it isn't as drawn out as some of these. It's drawn out, yes, and probably would be best at a half hour instead of an hour, but it doesn't bore you to tears the way many Horror movies do, even today.And I often forget most movies then, as today, were made for theatre viewing. I would watch movies in the late sixties and seventies, but usually on the tube, and I do forget that those movies were meant for big screens. Still, that's no excuse for them to not be artistic on the tube.Not much here, but nothing to make you depressed either.
