The Mad Ghoul

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The Mad Ghoul is a 1943 film about a university chemistry professor who experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul.

Directed by James P. Hogan. Written by Paul Gangelin.
A New Sensation in Horror!

Dr. Alfred Morris[edit]

  • [Lecturing to his class] We have lethal gases which are used for a definite purpose... to kill. The poison gas of the natives had a definite purpose, but it not bring death, though, but death in life... or, if you prefer, life in death.
  • [Responding to the corpse sitting up and pulling a gun on him] Reports of your death seem to be greatly exaggerated.

Other[edit]

  • Det. Garrity: Anyone in this town who gets into a cemetery tonight won't get out alive.
  • Sgt. Macklin: [to Isabel] Suppose he's two people, the man you love and the ghoul?
  • Egan (mortician): For goodness sake, whatever you do, don't mar the coffin!

Dialogue[edit]

Dr. Alfred Morris: I could use an assistant. How'd you like to spend your vacation helping me with my experiments at home?
Ted Allison: Would I? Say, there isn't a fellow in class who wouldn't give a leg to work with you in the lab!
Dr. Alfred Morris: [amused] Oh, that's rather more than the privilege is worth. You needn't give me a leg, just lend me a hand.

Scoop McClure: What kind of corpse do I make, Mr. Egan?
Egan (mortician): Very nice, very nice indeed... considering you have the disadvantage of being alive. Now if I was preparing you...
Scoop McClure: Never mind. That's one disadvantage I want to keep for a while.

Det. Garrity: [Regarding Eric] Nothing ghoulish-looking about that guy to me.
Sgt. Macklin: You can't tell about these musicians. A lot of them are pretty queer ducks.

Ted Allison: I can't help feeling a sense of evil in all this.
Dr. Alfred Morris: Moral concepts? I'm a scientist. To me there is no good or evil, only true or false. Work with one; discard the other.

Dr. Alfred Morris: [Shocked to find Ted destroying the formula] You fool! You madman! What have you done?
Ted Allison: I'm sending this evil back into the darkness!
Dr. Alfred Morris: Ted, you're mad! You can't do this!
Ted Allison: You're wrong, Doctor. There's nothing left of it now but you, and me, and this!

Cast[edit]

External links[edit]

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