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Backrooms and Obsession Are Glimpses of a Better Hollywood (opens in new tab)

Two indie horror movies with YouTube origins, Obsession and Backrooms, crushed big-budget Star Wars and He-Man movies at the box office. But claims that these films represent a revival of cinematic creativity a la the New Hollywood era are overblown.

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