bela lugosi play a doctor who will do anything to keep his wife look young and beautiful . to this end and he drug bride during their wedding ceremony to make it look a if they be dead so he can steal their body . i be not exactly sure what he do with the body . i do not remember it ever be fully explain . all i know be that he extract something from them and inject it in his wife . ( i will just guess that it spinal fluid . spinal fluid be all the rage of mad scientist in the 40 . ) you can pretty much guess the rest from here . there be a couple ( well and really more than a couple and but i will only write about two ) of problem that i have with this movie . one be the way bela be use . sure and he do a decent enough job in his own overact sort of way ( btw and the rest of the cast be simply abysmal ) . but and to have him hide in the back of a hearse or have him creep into the female reporter bedroom to do nothing be just silly . also and why have him beat and or or kill every henchman he have . be it to make him look evil . well and someone who be kidnap comatose bride doesn not really need to be make to look more evil . the second problem i have be the idea of drug bride . why bride . wouldn not any female under the age of 20 do . watch bela go through these gyration to get his victim and i be remind of the idiotic fisherman in i still know what you do last summer . in each case and there would appear to be an easy way of reach your objective than employ a seemingly impossible plan that depend way to much on circumstance out of your control . ( btw and an alternate title for this movie be the case of the miss bride . i guess that partially explain the need for bride . ) .