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Richard Roeper: When did haunted houses become so popular?


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Columnist and film critic Richard Roeper joins Bob Sirott to talk about the 25th anniversary of the movie “High Fidelity” and why he refers to it as one of the last great Chicago movies before smartphones. He also discusses how young people are collecting physical media again and the growing popularity of haunted houses.

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