How To Use Karloff In A Sentence

Bela Lugosi was born Bela Blasko in 1882, but changed his name in 1903 in honor of his hometown of Lugos,Hungary, while Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt in 1887, but assumed his new minacious moniker in 1909 while riding through Canada on a train! Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: 15 Intriguing Halloween-Related Factoids!
Uncommonly in the context of a horror film, Karloff is not top-billed; though his bearded and begoggled visage looms large in the psychedelic opening credits with the film's title spelled out in animated bones, à la ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, that distinction falls to dashing Jean-Pierre Aumont, who stars as photojournalist Claude Marchand. Archive 2006-12-31
Boris Karloff, who played the monster first in Frankenstein, turned down a reprise of the role because he feared the monster would only be demeaned and denigrated.
With skin dried to look like parchment, Karloff's Imhotep is a nightmare vision of sexual desire that persists even as the body decays. Stefan Beck: Wrap Party: Freund's The Mummy and Baba Ghanoush
After Frankenstein, the gentle, soft-spoken Karloff would star in horror films, and precious little else.

Karloff only appears in the slower, talkier moments in the film, and he disappears for good chunks of time.
Moreover, the flick might be a landmark had Lugosi and Karloff been on hand to play Dracula and the Frankenstein monster, but the entire affair rings hollow with only Lon Chaney Jr. reprising the role that made him famous.
So far we have created a Boris Karloff-style mummy, weird skin textures made with liquid latex and bread crumbs (!), Collodion scars, and a Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth-style bug eyed dragstrip monster called a 'Weird-Oh.' Boing Boing: May 21, 2006 - May 27, 2006 Archives
With skin dried to look like parchment, Karloff's Imhotep is a nightmare vision of sexual desire that persists even as the body decays. Stefan Beck: Wrap Party: Freund's The Mummy and Baba Ghanoush
Much of the book sounds like a bogus impersonation, a belletrist's version of Boris Karloff.