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 back to The Next Picture Show, a movie at the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a current release.

I'm Tosh Robinson, here again with...

Keith Phipps. And...

Scott Tobias.

We've already had a lot to say about John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 and how heavily it was shaped by exploitation cinema and classic westerns from the 50s and 60s, especially a run of films directed by

Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne. Given all those influences, it seems fitting that Precinct

13 influenced a new generation of filmmakers in turn, especially Jeremy Sonier, the writer-director

of Murder Party, Blue Ruin, and the new Green Room. Like Precinct 13, Green Room features a group of desperate people

cornered by murderers, in this case, the members of a punk band on the road, hiding out in the

green room of a seedy backwoods bar, and under siege by a group of white supremacists who want

to kill them all to cover up a murder. Anton Yelchen and Alia Shawcat stars two of the band

members, who, like the Precinct 13 cops and criminals, are outgunned and relying on wits and desperation.

Patrick Stewart plays the bar owner and the organizer of the white supremacists, and he's a pretty terrifying figure.

He's also a much more present, personal, and specific threat than the silent hordes and assault on Precinct 13.

Gentlemen. and specific threat than the silent hordes in assault on Precinct 13. Gentlemen,

I hope you appreciate the situation.

Things have gone south.

No doubt. Now, Things have gone south.

No doubt.

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