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

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 the Week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here with...

Genevieve Kosky, Tosh Robinson.

And Keith Thubes.

Here on the next picture show, we 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, we invite you to stay

with us. We have 12 cabins and 12 vacancies, or, if you prefer, a cozy little bunker underground,

free of deadly toxins with a complimentary copy of Cannibal Airlines on VHS. Genevieve, what's the catch? The catch is that the creep who owns the place is probably going to kill you. Our movie pairing this week is Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Dan Tractenberg's 10 Cloverfield Lane, which share the same setup. Both open with a young woman skipping town in a hurry. She drives through the night on an empty stretch of highway, but veers off the road unexpectedly. She finds lodging in an isolated place, overseen by a gentle tone but temperamental host who may not have her best interests in mind. Psycho and Ten Cloverfield Lane diverge from there. In Hitchcock's classic, the woman in peril is Marion Crane, played by Janet Lee, who famously doesn't make it pass the first half of the movie.

The host is Norman Bates, played by Anthony Perkins, and it's his twisted mind that ultimately becomes the focus of the last half.

In 10 Cloverfield Lane, Mary Elizabeth Winstead gets to spend more time on screen as Michelle, who wakes up from an accident to find herself in an underground bunker.

Her host is Howard, played by

John Goodman, as a control freak who claims to be protecting Michelle and his neighbor Emmett,

played by John Gallagher Jr., from a deadly chemical attack above ground. Quite the predicament, Scott.

Indeed. Here we have two thrillers set primarily in one location, isolated from the rest of humanity.

We have two women whose lives

have permanently detoured, and we have two older men whose monstrousness will spend the bulk of the

movie attempting to fathom. Tasha, Keith, Genevieve, our listeners might think us mad to compare

Psycho and Ten Cloverfield Lane, but we all go a little mad sometimes.

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