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 through 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 shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson, here with... Scott Tobias. Keith Phipps. Jennevievkovsky is on vacation this week, but one of these days we promise we'll get the whole band back together. Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum, and 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 movie. This week, we're looking at a couple of unusual horror

films. Jordan Peel's new film writing and directing debut, Get Out, and West Craven's 1991

oddity, The People Under the Stairs. Keith, last I checked, you grew up locked in a dank basement eating human flesh,

so you're the perfect person to tell us about this week's pairing.

Ah, Keith, I can take this one, Tasha.

Anyone who's seen the sketch comedy show Key and Peel should be pretty familiar with Jordan Peel's sense of humor

and its fearlessness in dealing satirically with issues around race in America.

He and comedy partner Keegan Michael Key are both biracial, and their skits, including the famous Obama-Anger translator series,

often deal with black culture, friendship, self-presentation, and even history.

After the show ended its five-year run on Comedy Central,

Key has turned up in a lot of films, but Peel has mostly kept a lower profile. Both men reunited for the 2016 comedy Keanu, which Peel co-wrote, but Peel has mostly stayed off-screen. Instead,

he's been working on his directorial debut, Get Out, a horror film that deals nakedly and

sometimes hilariously with race in America Get Out, a horror film that deals nakedly and sometimes

hilariously with race in America. Specifically, explores the idea that self-satisfied, well-off

white liberals might pose as much danger to people of color as more overt racists do. That idea

feels subversive, but the film goes much, much further, touching knowledgeably on past horror

films and directly

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