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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 devoted to a classic film

though how it shaped our thoughts on our recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps here with Scott Tobias and Tasha Robinson.

Our regular co-host,

Jennifer Gukoski, can't join us for this episode because she's at a different point in this show's overlapping chronology. Instead, we're joined by a returning guest and one of our favorite guest

hosts, Fultra critic Alison Wilmore. Hello, Allison. Hello, and I love that you started off

with an Adam Agoyan joke, which everyone knows and loves those old Adam-A-Magoyan jokes. Keith likes going for the populist references. Well, I am making it, it's relevant. To our listeners who have not read this episode's title, it is relevant. It's not an out-of-now-now are Adam-G of which, sometimes this podcast has some pretty obvious pairings, and that's fine. Wiccan inspired us to revisit The Wizard of Oz, Alien Romulus, led us to a pairing of aliens. We just did two naked gun movies. Other times, we take a less intuitive route. Our current pairing falls into the latter category, that we think it's going to work out

anyway. One's a new horror movie. The other is a classic made by one of the Titans of 90s

indie filmmaking. Tasha, can you tell us about these films? Even before its release a few weeks

ago, Zach Kregor's weapons provoked conversation via its ominous trailer featuring disappearing

children. As it became clear that the film would concern

the effects of this event on a small community, we started thinking about Adam Agoyan's

1997 film The Sweet Hereafter, an adaptation of Russell Banks' novel of the same name,

depicting a horrific school bus crash in a small Canadian town and its far-reaching afterfacts.

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