Christopher Bollen Quotes

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine 1981, where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

Christopher Bollen

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• The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine 1981, where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Horror
  • Mask
  • Bloody