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 Keith Phipps here again with Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias.

And Jenna Yukoski is not here.

She was last seen on a string of neighborhood ring cameras in the middle of the night, but we hope she'll be back soon.

Joining us in her place is

a vulture film critic Alison Wilmore. Hello, Allison. Hello. I was excited I could just come

in halfway through the episode, a la Amy Madigan in this movie. So we really didn't appreciate you

doing that by hanging from the ceiling, though. That was very unnerving.

Look, you've got to make an entrance. So in our last episode, we discussed Edmagoian's 1997 film The Sweet Her After. We were reminded of that film, not that you can easily forget a film like The Sweet Her After by Zach Krieger's Weapons. Another story of a small town shattered by the disappearance of children. This is Craigar's second film as a solo director

and, after Barbarian, his second horror film. Craigar got his start in sketch comedy and co-directed

two films with his partner, the late Trevor Moore. Set in a small Pennsylvania town, weapon stars

Julia Garner as Justine Gandy, an elementary school teacher whose entire class leaves their homes

without explanation

at 2.17 a.m. one night. Well, almost her entire class. Alex, played by Carrie Christopher,

inexplicably remains for reasons he can't or won't explain. This leaves the parents of the

disappeared seeking answers, some more aggressively than others.

Josh Boland co-stars his Archer, a father who blames Justine, even if he can't explain what role she played. But he's only one of the most vocal members of a town that's made Justine a pariah

as they search for answers. So what happened? Unfolding across overlapping timelines, weapons provides many

answers but raises just as many questions in the process. We'll discuss it after the break.

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