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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson, here with Scott Tobias, Rachel Handler, and Keith Phipps. And behind the boards, as usual, Genevieve Koski. We all firmly believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context. So every other week, we get together to talk over a

classic film and consider how it relates to a current release. This week, I feign would give

to the a pair of period pieces about good, evil, self-righteousness, and murder, as we consider

two dread-soaked movies where Christianity and paganism face off, and neither one winds up

looking blameless or blessed. Rachel, dust the can wondrous well what we be about this e'en.

Yeah, you have not put in the five years of research necessary to earn talking like that.

But writer-director Robert Eggers did for his debut film The Witch.

The film is set in 1630s, New England, and Agers took the archaic dialogue and the

situations directly from documents from the era in order to make the film more realistic,

which is an interesting goal for a feature about a Puritan family banished to the wilderness and fighting both the supernatural force and their own paranoia and superstition.

This week, we're going to examine what's going on in The Witch and see how it contrasts with another film about superstition, paranoia, exile, and fervent religious beliefs, the

1973 cult classic The Wicker Man, written by playwright Anthony Schaefert and directed by Robin Hardy.

So Tasha, I assume we're going to find out how to get burned.

Oh, good Lord, no. That's from the terrible 2006 remake of The Wicker Man starring Nicholas Cage.

We'll be bringing that film into the conversation as well,

just because it fits so well with some of the things we want to address about how the witch,

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