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The Ghoul (1933)
Directed by Roger T. Hayes Hunter
Boris Karloff plays Professor Morlant. Morlant lives in an old and spooky house with only his Scottish butler for company. Morlant is a dying man and believes in the religion of the ancient Egyptians. In an effort to cheat death, he has used most of his fortune to buy the Eternal Light - a stone stolen from an Egyptian temple. In his final moments, Morland asks his butler to bandage the stone into the palm of his left hand. He has had an Egyptian tomb built in his garden and that is where he will be interred. The bushy eye-browed professor believes that he will rise from his tomb on the next full moon. When he does he intends to offer the Eternal Light to the god Anubis. If his offering is accepted Anubis will grant him the gift of eternal life. When the full moon comes, the professor does, indeed, rise from his grave, and, if he looked bad on his deathbed, he looks worse now. Not only are his eyebrows having a bad hair day, the rest of him seems to have followed their lead. Morlant staggers from his tomb and - horror of horrors - realizes that the Eternal Light has been stolen from his bandaged hand. Filled with rage, he lurches into the night, killing anyone that gets in his way as he searches for the Eternal Light. There are one or two twists to this tale and some people are not exactly as they seem to be. I did enjoy watching it, but it is never going to be one of my all time favourite horror classics I'm afraid.
Boris
Karloff
... Prof. Morlant
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