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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 to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast to dedicate it to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here with Scott Tobias. Hi, Scott.

Hey, what's up?

Neither Genevieve Koski nor Tasha Robinson are here tonight because they have turned into ghosts, but we hope to have them back soon. Instead, for the next two episodes in which we discuss films of which strangers have terrible experiences entering others' homes, will be joined by special guest Alison Wilmore, film critic at Vulture. Say hello, Allison. Hello,

Allison. Oh, there you go. So we kid, of course, Allison's no stranger since we've known her for years, and this is sort of a homecoming since she used to co-host the film spotting and spin-off film spotting SVU. Did you hear anything? No. I didn't hear anything, no. I didn't hear anything at all. Well, as I was saying, Allison used to host film spotting SVU with our friend Matt Singer, and I know we're not alone and missing that. You had to hear that, right? No? Okay. As I was saying, it's great having Allison on the show and... You heard none of that, right? Right. I think that makes me the nervous, fearful, nil of this episode then. Alison Scott, do you have any dibs on either of the other haunting roles you want to play? Oh, yeah. Russ Handlin's character, Luke, all the way. Majored in Martini's, absolutely. Oh, my gosh. Well, you took my guy. You took my guy. He seems he's the least haunted of the guy.

He absolutely has the best POV, yeah.

Scott, I'm still a bit too shaken to talk about our pairing. Can you tell listeners a bit about it?

Sure. Shortly before hitting the Alps for the Sound of Music,

director Robert Wise made a film set in the creepy, cramped interiors of a forbidding mansion,

The Haunting, an adaptation of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hillhouse scripted by frequent

collaborator Nelson Gidding.

Set in New England, but filmed in England, the film chronicles a few eventful days in the

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