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 in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here again with...

Keith Phipps.

And...

Tasha Robinson.

Genevieve Kosky has opted out of our scary movie pairing, not realizing that what happens off-screen is always scarier than what happens on screen.

On the first half of this episode, we discussed Nicholas Rugg's 1973 Shocker, Don't Look Now,

about grieving parents who head to Venice to get over the loss of a child, but discover that

fresh horrors await them. Its themes of grief, guilt, and extrasensory perception carry

over to Ariaster's debut feature, Hereditary, which also

mirrors its stories about parents dealing with loss. There are times on the next picture show

where we're finding connections between a new film and an older one that may not have directly

influenced it, but that's not the case with Don't Look Now in Hereditary. Clearly, Aster was taking

notes. Hereditary starts with the death of the family's

cruel, secretive matriarch, who casts such a dark shadow that her daughter, Annie Graham, played by Tony Colette, can scarcely find a kind word to say about her in her eulogy.

As the title suggests, however, the Graham family inherits some serious spookiness. While her husband Steve, played by Gabriel

Byrne, tries to be stoic, Annie gradually starts to lose her mind, especially after a gruesome

accident claims her 13-year-old daughter Charlie and leaves her teenage son Peter racked with guilt.

She starts attending support group meetings in secret and finds a friend in Joan, played by

...