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The Next Picture Show

#082: (Pt. 1) It Comes At Night / The Thing

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Trey Edward Shults’ new IT COMES AS NIGHT takes as one of its influences John Carpenter’s 1982 bloody masterpiece THE THING, which is as good a reason as any to revisit one of our favorite genre films. In this half of the discussion, we geek out over the film’s how’d-they-do-that gore effects and distinctive ensemble, and theorize why THE THING didn’t connect with audiences in 1982, and why it holds up so well today. Plus, a small taste of the deluge of feedback we got on our recent episodes on WONDER WOMAN and PATHS OF GLORY. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE THING, IT COMES AT NIGHT, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.1

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?

0:41.9

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:48.5

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

0:52.5

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:55.0

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

0:58.8

Genevieve Kosky is here, but silently producing us.

1:01.4

Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context.

1:07.2

So, every other week, we get together to talk over over classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie.

1:12.8

This week, we're huddling together in the dark to talk about two films about paranoia,

1:16.3

fragile alliances, and threats lurking just outside our walls. Tasha, can I trust you to tell us about

1:21.6

the movies we'll be talking about this week? Well, I mean, I know I'm human, and if you were both

1:25.5

against me, you'd just attack me right now. So I guess I got nothing to lose.

1:29.6

Should we all start cooking our own food, though, just to be safe?

1:32.0

Yeah, that's probably for the best,. Campbell short novel, Who Goes There?

1:45.9

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

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