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's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson, here with Scott Tobias and Genevieve Koski.

Keith is out this week, brushing up on his drag racing and organ playing skills, but he'll be back for our next recording.

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 a classic film and consider how it relates

to a current movie.

This week, we're exploring two films that are haunting in both the literal and the pun-tastic

senses.

Both films feature a car crash that leaves a character in limbo, unseen by the people around them, and trying to navigate what may be the afterlife or just a rest stop en route to the real thing.

Genevieve, fire up the organ music and remember to put your soul into it.

Scott, may I have this dance?

I actually have urgent business elsewhere.

But before I start running in place like a Scooby-Doo character who sees a g-g-g-go-g-g-ghost,

let me lay out a little more of this week's plan.

We'll be talking about Herk Harvey's creepy cult hit Carnival of Souls, a 1962 black-and-white

horror drama about a woman who emerges from a river after a terrible car accident and subsequently

can't ditch the strange

figures following her or the sensation that something is terribly wrong. Then we'll bring in

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