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In January 1998, 37-year-old Gina Castillo had a nice life—a husband, a teenage son, and a 1-month old baby girl. She had no way to know that her son Mario had a disturbing obsession with the movies Scream and Scream 2, or that he wanted to bring the films to life.

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