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 back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here again with...

Tosh Robinson.

Scott Tobias.

And behind the boards, it's Genevieve Kassi.

In the first half of this conversation, we talked about Dario Agento's 1977 film Suspira.

Now we're going to talk about a 2016 film,

Nicholas Winning Refins, The Neon Demon, which works as a contemporary companion piece.

On hand from Susperia, the jealous young competitive women, this time models instead of dancers,

the aggressive color scheme, the even more aggressive music, the slow creep of the supernatural

into the mundane world, the sometimes all-inspiring gift for composition, the slow creep of the supernatural into the mundane world,

the sometimes all-inspiring gift for composition, the mounting sense of dread and danger,

and scenes of explosive violence. Yet, just as Argento set himself apart from the strongest influence, Alfred Hitchcock, Reffin's film, which draws liberally from Argento, Lynch,

and others, still feels like the product of a singular voice

that mixes undeniable artfulness with an almost adolescent desire to shock.

I see 20 or 30 girls come in here every day.

From small towns with big dreams.

Some girls crack under the pressure.

You?

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