The Ghoul

1933

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 35% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 35% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 3542 3.5K

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Plot summary

British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.

Director

T. Hayes Hunter Photo
T. Hayes Hunter

Top cast

Kathleen Harrison Photo
Kathleen Harrison as Kaney
Ernest Thesiger Photo
Ernest Thesiger as Laing
Cedric Hardwicke Photo
Cedric Hardwicke as Broughton
Boris Karloff Photo
Boris Karloff as Professor Morlant
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
737.13 MB
1280*822
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 3
1.34 GB
1682*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 20 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by GroovyDoom 6 / 10

Amazing sets and photography, atmosphere to burn

Reviewed by rbyers 7 / 10

Better than all that

Most of the other commenters seem to have seen a truncated, blurry version of this movie. The new DVD certainly kept me entertained! It's true that the movie is very dark, but the shadowy photography is beautiful and Germanic -- prime '30s look, fog, candlelight, and all. I just checked, and I see that cinematographer Gunther Krampf also shot NOSFERATU, THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE, and PANDORA'S BOX. Pretty good resume!Hoaky old dark house cliches and humor, for sure, but funny if you know the genre. The woman who wants to be the "sheikh's" love slave is a real hoot. Karloff, Thesiger, Hardwick, and Richardson are all very good, as are the romantic couple who spar and then decide they like each other (surprise!). Karloff's self-mutilation scene is brilliantly disturbing. And wait a second, is that a patch of bamboo he stumbles into just in front of the Yorkshire moors? This is all great fun, perhaps best if you check any high expectations at the door.
Reviewed by a_chinn 6 / 10

Slow to get started, but solid Karloff horror film

Boris Karloff was already a horror mainstay at this point in his career, having played Frankenstein's monster, The Mummy, and Fu Manchu, and now playing the titular Ghoul. This film has a deceased Karloff coming back to life after an Egyptian jewel he was buried with is stolen. The film really does, pun intended, come to life after Karloff's resurrection, but the build up to that point for the film's short 79-minute runtime is a bit of a slog. Overall, this British horror film isn't exactly a Universal Pictures Horror classic, but it is solid entertainment. FUN FACT! "The Ghoul" is one of many films to have fallen into the public domain, so it is freely available for download on the internet.
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