The Ghoul

This extremely rare Boris Karloff vehicle had been virtually unavailable in the US until Sinister Cinema video came up with a tape taken from British television. While the film has developed something of a "lost classic" reputation over time (after years of searching, a print was finally found in New York City in 1969), it is certainly no masterpiece--but quite interesting nonetheless. Karloff's first British film (he left England in 1909) casts him as Prof. Morlant, an eccentric English Egyptologist obsessed with the powers of the ancient Egyptian gods. On his deathbed he commands his servant, Laing (Ernest Thesiger), to bind the sacred jewel known as "The Eternal L...