bela lugosi appear in several of these low budget chiller for monogram studio in the 1940 and the corpse vanishes be one of the good one . bela play a mad scientist who kidnap young bride and kill them and then extract fluid from their body so he can keep his age wife look young . after a reporter and a doctor stay the night at his home and discover he be responsible for the bride death and the follow morning they report these murder to the police and the mad scientist be shot and drop dead shortly afterwards . you have get almost everything in this movie represent the scientist assistant consist of an old hag and a hunchback and dwarf ( her son ) and a thunderstorm and spooky passage in bela house . bela and his wife find they sleep well in coffin rather than bed in the movie . the corpse vanishes be worth a look and especially for bela lugosi fan . great fun . rating represent 3 star out of 5 .