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 of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it shaved our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here again with Scott Tobias.

Tosha Robinson.

Genevieve is behind the boards.

On the first half of this episode, we looked at John Carpenter's The Thang.

Now we turn into the recently released It Comes at Night, the second feature from writer-director, Trey Edward Schultz. Setting the aftermath of a fast-spreading plague that's taken on apocalyptic proportions, it largely takes place in a sprawling upstate New York house home to a family of three. Paul, played by Joel Edgerton, Sarah played by Carmen A. Yogo, and their teenage son, Travis, played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.

After their home was broken into by an intruder named Will, played by Christopher Abbott,

they decided to accept his story that he didn't know it was occupied and invite Will,

his wife Kim, played by Riley Keough, and their young son, Andrew, into their home.

This goes well until it doesn't.

We'll talk about this film and bring in John Carpenter's The Thing

as a point of comparison after the break.

I'm going to try to help you in here for Emily.

I want to thank you guys for letting us stay here.

I'm just going to run through a few things.

When we go out during the day, we like to stick to groups just for safety.

The red door, it's the only way in and out of the house.

It stays closed and locked all the time.

I have the keys.

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