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 the Week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson here again with...

Genevieve Kovicke Fips has traveled into either the past or the future this week or not sure which, but we'll catch up with him at some point soon because time is a flat circle.

On the first half of this episode, we looked at Carnival of Souls,

Herc Harvey's eerie 1962 horror drama,

about a woman who emerges from a seemingly fatal car accident

into a world that seems to have rejected her,

or maybe she's rejected it.

In the second half, we're pairing it with David Lowry's tremendous Sundance hit,

A Ghost Story, in which a man played by Casey Affleck dies in a car crash,

leaving behind his lover Rooney Mara and watching her from the shadows as a ghost.

Lowry is the writer-director of a previous next-pitcher show discussion topic,

Disney's modern-day remake of Pete's Dragon,

and he's also worked with Affleck and Marr before on his movie, Ain't Them Bodies Saints.

This movie, made independently while he was rapping post-production on Pete's Dragon, is a very personal one.

It started with an argument between himself and his wife, and with his mental image of Affleck with a sheet over his head,

in a costume that looks like it was borrowed from the kids on

peanuts. But Lowry uses subtle technical tricks, eerie music, and a perfectly established

hush tone to turn that silly image into something melancholy, approachable, and ultimately

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