The Ghoul - 1933 Boris Karloff

1933 British horror film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Boris Karloff, featuring Harold Huth, Dorothy Hyson, Ernest Thesiger, Kathleen Harrison and Cedric Hardwicke; Ralph Richardson makes his film debut.

Weird-looking Professor Henry Morlant (played by Boris Karloff so he’s bound to look a bit odd), renowned Egyptologist, thinks that an ancient jewel called the "Eternal Light" will bring him back to life after he dies, so long as it is offered up to the ancient Egyptian god Anubis. But when Morlant dies, his servant Laing (Ernest Thesiger, who’s just as weird and creepy as Boris) steals the jewel. While a bunch of seedy individuals, including a disreputable solicitor (Cedric Hardwicke) and a fake parson (Ralph Richardson), show up to steal the jewel, Boris returns from the dead, not quite alive, and proceeds to menace the heck out of everyone.