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

I'm Keith Phipps here with Scott Tobias and Tasha Robinson.

Genevieve Kosky is here, but silently producing us. 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 classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie. This week, we're huddling together in the dark to talk about two films about paranoia, fragile alliances, and threats lurking just outside our walls. Tasha, can I trust you to tell us about the movies we'll be talking about this week? Well, I mean, I know I'm human, and if you were both against me, you'd just attack me right now. So I guess I've got nothing to lose. Should we all start cooking her own food, though, just to be safe? Yeah, that's probably for the best, especially if we're being targeted by an unfrozen visitor from another world with the ability to assume the form of any living creature. as in the 1982 film John Carpenter's The Thing, a film based on the John W. Campbell short novel, Who Goes There?

Which was also adapted into the genre-defining science fiction thriller The Thing from Another World, released in 1951.

Are you saying there might be some other threat?

Well, we could also be among the last survivors of a highly infectious plague with 100% fatality rate and living in a world where no one can be trusted, as in Trey Edward Schultz's new post-apocalyptic drama, it comes at night. Those both sound pretty bleak. So let's try to fight off the monster first with today's episode, in which we take our second trip into the John Carpenter fromography, a chilly excursion into a remote Antarctic outpost

where tempers run high and nobody seems to like

each other very much, even before a monster

comes into the mix. Then, later in the

week, we'll talk about it comes at night, a film that was

influenced by Carpenter's The Thung.

We'll be right back to start taking blood samples after

the break.

100,000 years ago,

it found its way into our galaxy. Trapped in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica,

it could not escape.

Now the men of Station 4 have made a monumental discovery.

An alien creature had frozen, but not to death.

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