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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?

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 shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson here again with...

Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias.

Our producer Genevieve Kosky is taking a restorative health break at a local facility after claiming her beloved dog Hugo was invisible and was haunting her.

We're pretty sure that's not true.

In our last episode, we looked back to 1944 and the Oscar-winning stage-derived drama

Gaslight about a husband trying to drive his new wife insane so he can search her house

for the jewels he couldn't find when he murdered her aunt.

This week, we're comparing it to the modern horror, The Invisible a controlling, abusive husband trying to drive his wife insane as punishment for leaving him. It's a Blumhouse horror film, so of course there has to be a gimmick, and in this case, it's that the husband is a pioneering inventor in the field of optics, and he's created a suit that lets him haunt her invisibly. Everyone else thinks he's dead,

but the audience knows he's manipulating her environment, assaulting her protectors, and setting her up

for life in asylum, assuming she even survives. But a couple of late film twists pushes plans

in a new direction. None of this has much to do with H.G. Well's original 1897 novel

Invisible Man, or with the various other film adaptations

of it over the years. But the new Invisible Man does feel particularly of the moment, since it's a

horror film about stalking, where wealth seems to make all the difference in establishing a man's

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