Boris Karloff Quotes

It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

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• It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

  

  Boris Karloff
  • Boy
  • Films
  • Horror