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Movie audiences are obsessed with 'Obsession'

A horror film made for less than a million dollars by a YouTuber in his studio feature debut is driving audiences to theaters in droves.

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Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
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