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 through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tasha Robinson here with Scott Tobias and Genevieve Koski. We're not sure where Keith Phipps is right now. He said something about a conspiracy that he wanted to investigate and we haven't seen him since. But we're hoping he'll make it back soon with his nose intact. Today, I can't just come out and tell you what films we're actually talking

about today, because the shadowy powers that be don't actually want you to have that information.

Genevieve, Scott, the best I can offer you this week is this boxed copy of the 1993 PC

computer game missed. It's up to you to determine the rest.

Okay, we could probably figure this out, right?

MIST barely has any dialogue.

So we're doing silent films this week, right?

What's the most famous silent film?

Probably F. W. Mernow's Sunrise or Buster Keaton's a general.

Is there a theme linking either of those films to something currently in

theaters? Maybe something with a military bent or a love story? What if you're overthinking this,

Scott? Miss takes place on an island, but you have to explore to find clues. Maybe we're doing

island-related mystery films like Shutter Island or the Wicker Man. No, no, no. We already paired

Wicker Man with the Witch back in 2016.

But maybe that's a clue, too. Something about repetition and magic. Or maybe this is more of a text

mystery. Mist has four letters, and the game has four sequels. Four times four is 16. Are we pairing

16 candles with the sun is also a star?

Okay, but the name Mist came from Jules Verne's 1874 novel The Mysterious Island,

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