Tengkorak Hidoep (literally The Living Skeleton) is a 1941 film from the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) directed by Tan Tjoei Hock.

There, they discover that the god Maha Daru, who was locked away on the island 2,000 years before after losing a battle to the goddess Gumba.

[2] It starred Tan Tjeng Bok, Moh Mochtar, Misnahati, Bissu, and Ali Joego.

[1] Salim Said, writing in 1981, stated that Tengkorak Hidoep was influenced by previous film adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula,[3] while Ade Irwansyah of Tabloid Bintang suggested that the dominance of the jungle scenes was inspired by the various films centred on Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan.

[1] Tan credited this success on the film's special effects, including a scene in which lightning smashes Maha Daru's grave and he comes out, a living skull, surrounded by flames.